Journalist Michael Zielenziger’s SHUTTING OUT THE SUN, explaining the mystery of Japan’s inability to recover from a decade-long recession by looking at social indicators–such as the tremendous number of Japanese women who choose to buy luxury handbags and designer clothes instead of marrying, plus its troubling rise of depression and alcoholism, growing suicide rate, and the more than one million young adults who shut themselves in their own rooms and have chosen to opt out completely from a society that got rich but has yet to place a value on individual identity, to Nan A. Talese for her imprint at Doubleday, by Marly Rusoff (world).
