Text in Arabic. 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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Text in Arabic. 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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Seller's Description:
Good. LARGE PRINT: Ex-library paperback (usual stamps, stickers) in clean, sound condition but glossy white cover has a worn, eroded strip at bottom fore edge corner which affects cover and first 25+/-pages; no spine crease; interior very good otherwise, however--pages crisp, white, appear unmarked; 238 pgs.; published by Thorndike Press, 2000; text in English (see picture of my book within this description)