Early Light

by Osamu Dazai

Book Overview

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 WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. Everything's gone, the father explains to his daughter: Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0811231984
• ISBN13: 9780811231985
• Release Date: September 2022
• Publisher: New Directions Publishing Corporation
• Length: 64 Pages
• Weight: 0.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 6.1" x 9.3"