A Pale View of Hills (Faber Firsts)

A Pale View of Hills (Faber Firsts)

by KazuoIshiguro (Author)

Synopsis

In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills , Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 192
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Published: 07 May 2009

ISBN 10: 057124565X
ISBN 13: 9780571245659
Book Overview: Beautiful new paperback Faber Firsts edition to commemorate Faber's 80th Anniversary

Author Bio
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.