The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua bestselling author Louise Penny introduced

bestselling author Louise Penny introduced her iconic mystery series starring Chief Inspector Armand Gamache of the Surêté du Québec and his team of investigators as they are called into the scene of a suspicious death in a picturesque rural village somewhere south of Montreal

And what has she done

I’ll do it later

No matter how much blood she has to spill

Illustrated in color throughout

The Setting Sun (New Directions Book) by Osamu Dazai, Donald Keene Charlene Chua bestselling author Louise Penny introducedThis 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 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