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In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war.
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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.
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Subtle and Restrained, Sep 11 2011
By Dr. Bojan Tunguz - Published on Amazon.com
This review is from: A Pale View Of The Hills (Paperback)
During a visit from her daughter Niki, Etsuko, who now lives in England, reflects on her earlier life in Japan. The floodgates of memories are also opened by a recent suicide of Keiko, Etsuko's older daughter from her first marriage. Keiko had struggled to adjust to life in England, prompting her suicide. As Etsuko remembers her older daughter, she also finds herself reminiscing about another young woman and her daughter whom she had met in Nagasaki shortly after World War II and who had emigrated to the United States. The incidents that Etsuko recalls are highly idiosyncratic, and it is not entirely clear if they had actually occurred, or if the mother and daughter duo are figments of Etsuko's imagination created in order to cope with her own sense of grief and guilt.This is Kazuo Ishiguro's first published novel. It resonates with several themes from his other works, albeit in a very different setting. Attention to social and interpersonal relations is heightened, and the author's writing style is very refined and reflective. While not exactly the most exciting read, lovers of good literature will nevertheless find many good qualities in this short novel.
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