Six Platinum Stars/SIX WHITE VENUS by Sakunosuke Oda

六白金星 by Sakunosuke Oda

The Metamorphosis

For IB students who don't have the book The Metamorphosis by Frank Kafka

The Setting Sun by Osamu Dazai

The post-war period in Japan was one of immense social change as Japanese society adjusted to the shock of defeat and to the occupation of Japan by American forces and their allies. Osamu Dazai's The Setting Sun takes this milieu as its background to tell the story of the decline of a minor aristocratic family. The st...