{"product_id":"early-light-by-osamu-dazai-9780811231985","title":"Early Light","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eEarly Light\u003c\/em\u003e offers three very different aspects of Osamu Dazai's genius. The title story relates his misadventures as a drinker and a family man during the terrible fire bombings of Tokyo at the end of WWII. Having lost their own home, he and his wife flee with a new baby boy and their little girl to relatives in Kofu, only to be bombed out anew. \"Everything's gone,\" the father explains to his daughter: \"Mr. Rabbit, our shoes, the Ogigari house, the Chino house, they all burned up,\" \"Yeah, they all burned up,\" she said, still smiling.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eOne Hundred Views of Mount Fuji\u003c\/em\u003e, another autobiographical tale, is much more comic. Dazai finds himself unable to escape the famous views, the beauty once immortalised by Hokusai and now reduced to a cliché. In the end, young girls torment him by pressing him into taking their photo before the famous peak: \"Goodbye,\" he hisses through his teeth, \"Mount Fuji. Thanks for everything. Click.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThe final story is \u003cem\u003eVillon's Wife\u003c\/em\u003e, a small masterpiece, which relates the awakening to power of a drunkard's wife. She transforms herself into a woman not to be defeated by anything, not by her husband being a thief, a megalomaniacal writer, and a wastrel. Single-handedly, she saves the day by concluding that \"There's nothing wrong with being a monster, is there? As long as we can stay alive.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Unknown","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47076539564268,"sku":"9780811231985","price":33.99,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/22703813482476.jpg?v=1765203938","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.live\/products\/early-light-by-osamu-dazai-9780811231985","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}