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“The Unconsoled” by Kazuo Ishiguro

7 March 2009 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

Have you ever had one of those dreams where you are trying to get somewhere but things keep going wrong? You get on the wrong train, get off and go back in the other direction but it takes you somewhere else, then start walking but the streets don’t go where they’re supposed to? I’ve had [...]

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“An Artist of the Floating World” by Kazuo Ishiguro

14 February 2009 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

An elderly, celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, is living in retirement in Japan just after the end of World War Two. His daughter is having trouble in her marriage negotiations for reasons he can’t understand: gradually he realises it’s because he is associated with the rise of Japanese militarism in the 1930s, a period now discredited [...]

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“A Pale View of Hills” by Kazuo Ishiguro

28 December 2008 · Reading · Comments { 1 }

Most of this novel is memory: a woman thinking about her daughter’s suicide and remembering an earlier summer in post-War Nagasaki. Almost nothing happens in the present day. The whole story takes place in the past. And the story in the past is full of holes. At first this annoyed me but, the more I [...]

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