Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

by KazuoIshiguro (Author)

Synopsis

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.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Export ed.
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 07 May 2008

ISBN 10: 0571244998
ISBN 13: 9780571244997

Author Bio
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, shortlisted for the 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.