Publisher's Synopsis
Setting Sun" takes the declining aristocratic family as the stage, with four main characters compose an elegy with the theme of "destruction". Once a noble daughter who was held in the palm of her hand and cared for, after experiencing the bereavement, divorce, family decline, and close relatives' divorce, she decided to follow her heart and choose to live "for love and revolution", becoming the heroine Kazuko of an unmarried mother; As the "Last Lady of Japan", the mother had to sell her mansion in Tokyo, and then she withered and withered like a flower that lost its vitality; Seen as the last ray of hope to revive the family, but addicted to drugs, just because he didn't want to face his mother and sister's desolate younger brother Naoji when he was awake; Notorious, under the ruthless rolling of the great wheel of the times and the torment of illness, the writer Uehara could only use alcohol to numb all senses. "Setting Sun" is the most beautiful and moving work of Dazai Osamu. The whole book is composed of the confession of the heroine Kazuko, her letters to Uehara, the diary of her younger brother Naoji, and the suicide note. It describes the social turmoil in Japan after the war. And those who cannot adapt to the great changes of the times, and finally go to disillusionment... Accurately present Osamu Dazai's disillusionment aesthetics.
