The Setting Sun Novel He travels alone up raging

He travels alone up raging rivers that only the most expert white-water canoeists dare travel even downstream

in a graphic novel that

an excellent addition to any nonfiction library'

Companion to the Newbery Medal Winner "New Kid"

With characteristic humor and complexity

The Setting Sun Novel He travels alone up ragingSet 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.