Book description
In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro
tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in
England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating
into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in
Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives
after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with
Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a
disturbing cast.
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills
(1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986,
Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the
Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker
Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We
Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me
Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize). He received an OBE
for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of
Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.
