Dazai, Osamu

  • Osamu Dazai’s No Longer Human: The Manga Edition

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    “I’ve led a life full of shame. Human beings are a complete mystery to me.”

    This manga version of novelist Osamu Dazai’s masterpiece NO LONGER HUMAN–the #2 bestselling novel of all time in Japan–tel

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    • Series: Tuttle Japanese Classics in Manga
    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 21 2023
    • ISBN10: 4805317728
    • Language: English
  • Retrograde

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    Three stories of the ruined and the lost: Osamu Dazai at his most tormented. This collection unearths the Japanese literary legend’s most controversial and exhilarating early-career writing with first… [more below]

    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 128
    • Publish Date: September 16 2025
    • ISBN10: 1642735132
    • Language: English
  • No One Knows

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    No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when we’re adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: February 04 2025
    • ISBN10: 0811239330
    • Language: English
  • The Setting Sun: A New Translation

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    “Dazai’s best novel […] focusing on a woman forced to deal with the consequences of heedless, Dazai-like behavior” –The New York Times

    A completely new translation of one of Osamu Dazai’s best-love

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 160
    • Publish Date: May 06 2025
    • ISBN10: 4805318090
    • Language: English
  • The Real Osamu Dazai: A Life in Twenty Stories

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    “Dazai’s brand of egoistic pessimism dovetails organically with the emo chic of this cultural moment and with the inner lives of teenagers of all eras.” –Andrew Martin, The New York Times

    Best-known

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 320
    • Publish Date: September 24 2024
    • ISBN10: 4805318341
    • Language: English
  • The Beggar Student

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    A fictional writer in his thirties named Osamu Dazai has just mailed his publisher an awful manuscript, filling him with dread and shame. Wandering along a river in a nearby park in suburban Tokyo, he

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 96
    • Publish Date: November 05 2024
    • ISBN10: 081123858X
    • Language: English
  • Schoolgirl: Hardcover Edition

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    Essentially the start of Dazai’s career, Schoolgirl gained notoriety for its ironic and inventive use of language. Now it illuminates the prevalent social structures of a lost time, as well as the str… [more below]

    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 112
    • Publish Date: April 16 2024
    • ISBN10: 1642733547
    • Language: English
  • Osamu Dazai’s the Setting Sun: The Manga Edition

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    A classic of Japanese literature, brought to life in English & manga for the first time!

    This is the first manga edition in English of The Setting Sun, Osamu Dazai’s classic novel, often considered hi

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  • Early Light

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    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 WW… [more below]

    • Series: Storybook ND
    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 64
    • Publish Date: September 27 2022
    • ISBN10: 0811231984
    • Language: English
  • The Girl Who Became a Fish: Maiden’s Bookshelf

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    What dark fate awaits beneath the roaring falls?

    Suwa and her father live alone on the slopes of Horsebare Mountain, eking out the most meager of existences. During the warmer months the beautiful wa

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    • Series: Maiden’s Bookshelf
    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 56
    • Publish Date: August 15 2023
    • ISBN10: 164729181X
    • Language: English
  • A Shameful Life: (Ningen Shikkaku)

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    A new, definitive translation of the postwar classic know to the west as No Longer Human-a tortured vision inspiring the likes of Junji Ito and Bungo Stray Dogs

    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 144
    • Publish Date: November 20 2018
    • ISBN10: 1611720443
    • Language: English
  • The Setting Sun

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    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 … [more below]

    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0811234444
    • Language: English
  • No Longer Human

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    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 narrat

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Hardcover
    • Page Count: 192
    • Publish Date: November 15 2022
    • ISBN10: 0811232433
    • Language: English
  • Self-Portraits: Stories

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    “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 arist

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    • Author: Dazai, Osamu
    • Binding: Paperback
    • Page Count: 256
    • Publish Date: February 06, 2024
    • ISBN10: 0811232263
    • Language: English
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