The Unconsoled: Kazuo Ishiguro by Amazonundefined

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By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and the highest praise.
Opis z obwoluty
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017'Almost certainly a masterpiece.' Anita BrooknerRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and the highest praise.If you enjoyed The Unconsoled, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.
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By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and the highest praise.
O autorze
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight works of fiction have earned him many awards and honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been trans-lated into over fifty languages.
The Remains of the Day
and
Never Let Me Go
were made into acclaimed films. Ishiguro also writes screenplays and song lyrics. He lives in London with his wife and daughter., Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He 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, Premio 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, Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, Serono Literary Prize, Casino de Santiago European Novel Award, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize).
Nocturnes
(2009) was awarded the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa International Literary Prize.
Kazuo Ishiguro's work has been translated into over forty languages.
The Remains of the Day
and
Never Let Me Go
have also been adapted into major films.
In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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