Book description
In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love,
music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the
Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive
Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers
to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of
reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a
haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance,
even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.
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, Primio 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.
