Nocturnes : Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

Author(s): Kazuo Ishiguro

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In a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.




Author Biography: 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.

First published 2009.

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Vanessa writes: Nocturnes is told in five short, exquisite stories that deal with the themes of romance, music, time and regret. From Italy to the Malvern Hills, London to Hollywood, the characters are all trying to come to terms with the regret that comes with age, while still struggling to keep alive a sense of youthful romance . So sad, so beautiful, so understated. This is a well crafted work of fiction from one of today's finest authors.

General Fields

  • : 9780571244997
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : Faber & Faber, Limited
  • : 0.26
  • : May 2008
  • : books

Special Fields

  • : Modern fiction; Short stories
  • : 240
  • : very good
  • : 823/.914
  • : English
  • : Export ed.
  • : Paperback
  • : Kazuo Ishiguro