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Early Light (Storybook ND series) by Osamu Dazai
$29.95 AUD
Category: New Hardbacks | Series: Storybook ND Ser.
Early Light offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius: the title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man in the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relati ...Show more
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. Oba Yozo's attempts to reconcile himself to the world around him begin in early childhood, continue through high school, ...Show more
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
$27.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
The poignant and fascinating story of a young man who is caught between the breakup of the traditions of a northern Japanese aristocratic family and the impact of Western ideas. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while ...Show more
No Longer Human by Osamu Dazai
$40.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Mine has been a life of much shame. I can't even guess myself what it must be to live the life of a human being. Portraying himself as a failure, the protagonist of Osamu Dazai's No Longer Human narrates a seemingly normal life even while he feels himself incapable of understanding human beings. His att ...Show more
Self-Portraits: Stories by Osamu Dazai
$26.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
"Art dies the moment it acquires authority." So said Japan's quintessential rebel writer Osamu Dazai, who, disgusted with the hypocrisy of every kind of establishment, from the nation's obsolete aristocracy to its posturing, warmongering generals, went his own way, even when that meant his death-and the ...Show more
The Flowers of Buffoonery (Prequel: No Longer Human) by Osamu Dazai; Sam Bett (Translator)
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
The Flowers of Buffoonery opens in a seaside sanitarium where Yozo Oba--the narrator of No Longer Human at a younger age--is being kept after a failed suicide attempt. While he is convalescing, his friends and family visit him, and other patients and nurses drift in and out of his room. Against this dis ...Show more
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
$40.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. Set in the early postwar years, The Setting Sun probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society. The influence of Osamu Dazai's novel has made " ...Show more
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
$24.99 AUD
Category: Fiction
This powerful novel of a nation in social and moral crisis was first published by New Directions in 1956. 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 ...Show more
The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai
$24.95 AUD
Category: Fiction
Set in the early postwar years, it probes the destructive effects of war and the transition from a feudal Japan to an industrial society.
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