Product Description: Indigno de ser humano se ha convertido, con el paso de los años, en una de las obras más populares de la literatura japonesa, superando los diez millones de ejemplares vendidos desde su primera publicación en 1948.

Product Description: A young girl from a poor family is forced to commit a robbery for love. An elderly woman admits that one night, many years earlier, she was strongly attracted to a man she barely knew. A housewife tells her story of suffering upon discovering that her husband has a mistress...read more

Product Description: In this final volume of No Longer Human, Yozo has been lulled into a sense of comfort with his new life and young wife. All that he holds dear is completely destroyed when he finds out that the person he loves is even potentially worse off than he...read more

Product Description: Furuya's adaptation of No Longer Human takes place nearly seventy years after Dazai's original. Set in modern day Tokyo, Dazai's tale details the life of a young man originally from a well-off family from Japan's far north. Yozo Oba is a troubled soul incapable of revealing his true self to others...read more

Product Description: Indigno de ser humano se ha convertido, con el paso de los años, en una de las obras más populares de la literatura japonesa, superando los diez millones de ejemplares vendidos desde su primera publicación en 1948.

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Stories deal with a man who changes into a bird, a brother and sister who share special powers, and family members who take turns telling a story

Product Description: Twenty autobiographical stories describe with honesty and self-deprecating humour the women, the suicide attempts, the drinking and the struggle against a staid literary establishment of Japan's enfant terrible.

Product Description: Twenty autobiographical stories describe with honesty and self-deprecating humour the women, the suicide attempts, the drinking and the struggle against a staid literary establishment of Japan's enfant terrible.

This collection of previously unpublished work has been carefully chosen to present the most fully rounded portrait of Osamu Dazai, the tragic genius of 20th century Japanese literature. By turns hilarious, introspective, ironic, and mystical, these remarkable tales reveal the full range of Dazai’s talents, now lost to the world thanks to his dissolute life and eventual suicide.

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A young man describes his torment as he struggles to reconcile the diverse influences of Western culture and the traditions of his own Japanese heritage

Product Description: 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...read more