(COMPLETED) No Longer Human (Japanese: 人間失格, Hepburn: Ningen Shikkaku), also translated as A Shameful Life, is a 1948 novel by Japanese author Osamu Dazai. It tells the story of a troubled man incapable of revealing his true self to others, and who, instead, maintains a façade of hollow jocularity, later turning to a life of alcoholism and drug abuse before his final disappearance. The original title translates as "Disqualified as a human being" or "A failed human".The book was published one month after Dazai's suicide at the age of 38. No Longer Human is considered a classic of postwar Japanese literature and Dazai's masterpiece. It enjoys considerable popularity among younger readers and ranks as the second best-selling novel by publishing house Shinchōsha, behind Sōseki Natsume's Kokoro. COMPLETED. FINISHED. NOT ONGOING.

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Evan Hansen was born with a sixth sense that caused him to be able to feel anyone else's emotions. As he grew up, it was relevant and constantly used, considering he was unable to control it; though, when the sense became easier to control, he disregarded it, wanting to be as normal as possible. Nonetheless, that power brought him to saving a boy's life. One that he would soon desire to spend his life with.