Description: For fans of No Longer Human, Osamu Dazai's darkly bewitching novel about the small redemptions of being a pathetic, miserable writer.
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: What I despise about Dazai is that he exposes precisely those things in myself that I most want to hide.--Yukio Mishima