{"product_id":"9780811224253","title":"The Setting Sun","description":"\u003cp\u003eThis powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956.\u003c\/p\u003e Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. Ozamu Dazai died, a suicide, in 1948. But the influence of his book has made \"people of the setting sun\" a permanent part of the Japanese language, and his heroine, Kazuko, a young aristocrat who deliberately abandons her class, a symbol of the anomie which pervades so much of the modern world.","brand":"New Directions Publishing Corporation","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47129277890800,"sku":"9780811224253","price":14.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780811224253_p0.jpg?v=1772805060","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780811224253","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}