Book description
'Almost certainly a masterpiece.' Anita Brookner Ryder, a renowned
pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a
concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses
a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely
malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is
facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's
extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his
control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and
the highest praise. 'The Unconsoled is a masterpiece ... it is above
all a book devoted to the human heart, and as such Ishiguro's greatest
gift to us yet.' The Times 'He is an original and remarkable genius ..
The Unconsoled is the most original and remarkable book he has so far
produced.' New York Times Book Review
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.
