This quiet book is supposedly about a man and his two daughters, but it is also a look at what happened and why memory is a funny thing. The book is more for what is understand. it is one of those books where the long silences actually carry the weight of the story.
Writing a review of a Kazuo Ishiguro book is like reading a Kazuo Ishiguro book: it's the same thing as the last time. What can I say different in this review? It's mostly the same: Ishiguro is a brilliant author with a gorgeous understanding of the language; he drops that displaced unreliable narra...
My completist quest regarding Kazuo Ishiguro's novels and short stories (begun long before he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature) took me back to one of his earlier works -- I only had An Artist of the Floating World and The Unconsoled to finish to have read all of his novels; and with the c...
Ishiguro’s novels are beautiful. That’s the one word the springs to mind immediately when thinking of his writing. No matter what the setting or storyline, the writing draws you completely into the world and characters; yet still retains that mystery and distance that he creates so well. An Artist...
somebody wrote, intelligently, here on GR, any given author's works will be hit and miss even for his close fans, and after five full Kazuo Ishiguro works, I find this particularly true. definite hit: Remains of the Day. definite hit: Orphans. merely competent: Never Let Me Go, Pale View of Hills. t...
If you've already read [b:The Remains of the Day|28921|The Remains of the Day|Kazuo Ishiguro|http://d.gr-assets.com/books/1327128714s/28921.jpg|3333111], chances are your enjoyment of An Artist of the Floating World will be greatly curtailed. And that is the sheer tragedy of this book.Replace Steven...
F:bookiesnot essentialregisteredIshiguro, KazuoAn Artist of the Floating WorldHome audio - don't know what to expect!Unabridged and read by David Case. Lordy but how these narrators do not fit Ishiguro's work... did he not get a choice?This is a novella in four parts:October 1948April 1949November 1...
Each time my eyelids bowed down to the devil of grave drowsiness, the concave depths displayed a lean, modest shadowy figure standing on the Bridge of Hesitation; the wrinkles on his forehead becoming deeper , trembling with culpability, wishing for Noriko’s miai to be an incessant success. Jer...
An Artist of the Floating WorldI've finally added Kazuo Ishiguro as a favourite author. I feel I should have when I read Never Let Me Go but I have yet to finish the book review for that one. So why am I writing this one first? I think it's because the other effected in a way I couldn't quite descr...
The book is set in the post WW2 in Japan. We follow the protagonist through his current life with lots of reflection of the past (ie. pre-war Japan). He took us on a journey of his life, from his youthful naivete to his older and perhaps regretful self. It was a bit of mystery to begin with, as e...
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