The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro | Literature & Fiction | This book has not been rated.
ISBN: 0679735879 Global Overview for this book
ISBN: 0679735879 Global Overview for this book
Registered by QueenBoadicea of Brooklyn, New York USA on 1/15/2015
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Blurb taken from back cover:
From the Booker Prize-winning author of “The Remains of the Day” comes an audacious new novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond control.
The setting is a Central European city where a renowned pianist has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In “The Unconsoled”, Kazuo Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, deeply strange, hauntingly familiar, and resonant with humanity and wit.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of “The Remains of the Day” comes an audacious new novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond control.
The setting is a Central European city where a renowned pianist has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In “The Unconsoled”, Kazuo Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, deeply strange, hauntingly familiar, and resonant with humanity and wit.
This book was released at Ottendorfer Library at the monthly book swap on Saturday, January 17, 2015.
