Kazuo Ishiguro: An Artist of the Floating World, Kartoniert / Broschiert
An Artist of the Floating World
- Publisher:
- Faber And Faber Ltd., 02/2013
- Binding:
- Kartoniert / Broschiert, ,
- Language:
- Englisch
- ISBN-13:
- 9780571283873
- Item number:
- 2357155
- Volume:
- 248 Pages
- Weight:
- 171 g
- Format:
- 198 x 128 mm
- Thickness:
- 17 mm
- Release date:
- 15.2.2013
- Note
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Caution: Product is not in German language
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Blurb
**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**
FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER LET ME GO
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR
1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
'An exquisite novel.' Observer 'Pitch-perfect. . . a tour de force of unreliable narration.' Guardian 'A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.' Sunday Times
Biography
Kazuo Ishiguro, geb. 1954 in Nagasaki, kam 1960 nach London, wo er Englisch und Philosophie studierte. 1995 wurde ihm der Cheltenham Prize verliehen und 2006 der Belletristikpreis der 'Zeit'. Kazuo Ishiguros Werk wurde bisher in 28 Sprachen übersetzt. Der Autor lebt mit Frau und Kind in London. 2006 erhält er den Corine-Preis.
