No One Knows

No One KnowsFourteen tales selected from the breadth of Dazais fabled career, some never before seen in English No one really understands how we suffer. One day, when were adults, we may come to recall this suffering, this misery, as silly and laughable, but how are we to get through the long, hateful period until then? No one bothers to teach us that. Osamu Dazai was a master raconteur who plumbedin an addictive, easy stylethe absurd complexities of life in a

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