Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

by KazuoIshiguro (Author)

Synopsis

'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch...' In a sublime short story collection, 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. If you enjoyed Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 240
Edition: Main - Re-issue
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Published: 18 Mar 2010

ISBN 10: 0571245005
ISBN 13: 9780571245000
Book Overview: Nocturnes is a thought-provoking short story collection by Kazuo Ishiguro, the esteemed author of The Remains of the Day, which won the 1989 Booker Prize, Never Let Me Go, and The Buried Giant.

Media Reviews
NATIONAL BESTSELLER
A New York Times Notable Book
A fine and moving collection of stories, displaying [Ishiguro's] unique combination of the sad, the stoic and the consoling. It's about failure, but it dignifies failure, and with it, the human condition. There is nobody like him.
- Margaret Drabble, The Guardian Books of the Year

Each of these stories is heartbreaking in its own way, but some have moments of great comedy, and they all require a level of attention that, typically, Ishiguro's writing rewards.
- The Observer

An amusing read, at times very funny.... There are a number of scenes in Nocturnes that are almost worth the price of admission on their own.
- The Globe and Mail

From the Hardcover edition.

Author Bio
Kazuo Ishiguro's seven published books have won him wide renown and many honours around the world. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His latest novel is The Buried Giant.