Publisher | Vintage |
Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Language | English |
Editorial Review | A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before.'-The New Yorker |
Edition Number | Reprint Edition |
Number of Pages | 544 |
ISBN 13 | 9780679735878 |
Book Format | Paperback |
Book Description | The Unconsoled 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 his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. |
About the Author | 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), and a book of stories, nocturnes (2009). 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. |
Publication Date | 1-Jan-97 |