Another spectacular collaboration from the Maiden's Bookshelf series, this dark and intense fable by the great giant of postward literature is brought to vivid life by contemporary master Nekosuke.
Suwa, a charcoal burner's daughter, lives together with her father in a small village at a foot of a mountain so remote it doesn't even appear on maps.
Slowly she comes to realize the dark futility of her life, leading to a strange and elliptical transformation...
Dazai depicts the adolescent awakening to death and the desire to escape through this quiet and ominous tale.
About the Author
Dazai (1909-1948) was one of the most popular and unique writers of the immediate postwar period. An alcoholic and member of the so-called buraiha or Decadent School, an unofficial grouping that also included the great Ango Sakaguchi, Dazai left behind a brilliant and challenging literary legacy when he drowned himself in a lovers' suicide in 1948.