ISHIGURO KAZUO
A PALE VIEW OF HILLS - KAZUO ISHIGURO
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A PALE VIEW OF HILLS
In this debut novel from acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go , post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma.
Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent suicide of her daughter, Keiko. A visit from her other daughter Niki sends Etsuko retreating into the depths of her memory. She finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the horrors of the bomb and World War Two.
But when her thoughts turn to her strange friendship with Sachiko and Sachiko's daughter Mariko, the memories begin to take on a disturbing cast. As Etsuko examines her relationship with her daughters and struggles to cope with her guilt, the lines between the past and the present - between Etsuko's own daughter and Mariko, between reality and recollection - start to blur.
Read the evocative and atmospheric novel that began Kazuo Ishiguro's illustrious literary career. Winner of the Winifred Holtby Prize in 1982, A Pale View of the Hills is still haunting readers decades later.
If you enjoyed A Pale View of the Hills, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.
KAZUO ISHIGURO
Kazuo Ishiguro born November 8, 1954, Nagasaki, Japan Japanese-born British novelist known for his lyrical tales of regret fused with subtle optimism. In 2017 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature for his works that "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
In 1960 Ishiguro's family immigrated to Great Britain, where he attended the universities of Kent B.A., 1978 and East Anglia M.A., 1980 . Upon graduation he worked at a homeless charity and began to write in his spare time. He initially gained literary notice when he contributed three short stories to the anthology Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers 1981 .
Ishiguro's first novel, A Pale View of Hills 1982 , details the postwar memories of Etsuko, a Japanese woman trying to deal with the suicide of her daughter Keiko. Set in an increasingly Westernized Japan following World War II, An Artist of the Floating World 1986 chronicles the life of elderly Masuji Ono, who reviews his past career as a political artist of imperialist propaganda. Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day 1989; film 1993 is a first-person narrative, the reminiscences of Stevens, an elderly English butler whose prim mask of formality has shut him off from understanding and intimacy. With the publication of The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro became one of the best-known European novelists at just 35 years of age. His next novel, The Unconsoled 1995 -a radical stylistic departure from his early, conventional works that received passionately mixed reviews-focuses on lack of communication and absence of emotion as a concert pianist arrives in a European city to give a performance.
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