The Setting Sun Bio25 the strange world of ancient

the strange world of ancient magic

the boom in alternative ways of understanding the world and the impact of spiritualism on feminism and contemporary art

a holocaust survivor

The brilliant storytelling of series creator Kazuo Koike and the groundbreaking cinematic visuals of Goseki Kojima create a graphic-fiction masterpiece of beauty

which will make these dolls meaningful keepsakes"

The Setting Sun Bio25 the strange world of ancientSet 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.