An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro. A Japanese artist looks back on his life after World War Two in this celebrated novel from the author of the Booker Prize-winning novel, The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go, and The Buried Giant.

Format
Ebook
ISBN
9780571249343
Date Published
08.01.2009
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Summary

*Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*

SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE WHITBREAD (NOW COSTA) BOOK OF THE YEAR

1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past – to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism – a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

‘An exquisite novel.’ Observer

‘Pitch-perfect … a tour de force of unreliable narration.’ Guardian

‘A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.’ Sunday Times

Critic Reviews

A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.

Sunday Times
Critic Reviews

An exquisite novel.

Observer
Critic Reviews

Pitch-perfect… a tour de force of unreliable narration.

Guardian
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His books have been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go…

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