Book description
It is 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 house repairs, 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 'A
work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.' Sunday Times
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.
