Description: For the first time in English, Osamu Dazai's hilariously comic and deeply moving prequel to No Longer Human
Brief description: Sam Bett is a fiction writer and Japanese translator. His translation of Yukio Mishima's Star won the 2019-2020 Japan-U.S. Friendship Commission Prize for the Translation of Japanese Literature.
Review Quotes: Dazai's usual concerns in a lighter, more comic key, ... captures the sweetness under the pretended bravado of these baffled youth.--Andrew Martin "The New York Times"