A sad, strange comedy set in contemporary Europe, and featuring a large gallery of characters. The author won the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for "An Artist of the Floating World", and the 1989 Booker Prize for "The Remains of a Day".
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A sad, strange comedy set in contemporary Europe, and featuring a large gallery of characters. The author won the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award for "An Artist of the Floating World", and the 1989 Booker Prize for "The Remains of a Day".
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Fine with no dust jacket. 0571176321. First American edition. ADVANCE READING COPY. SIGNED by Kazuo Ishiguro on title page. Near fine in pictorial printed wrappers. (Hint of light creasing at upper edge of text. ) Nobel Prize winner for literature.
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Fine with no dust jacket. 0571176321. First American edition. ADVANCE READING COPY. INSCRIBED by Nobel Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers.; First American Edition. ADVANCE READING COPY. INSCRIBED by Kazuo Ishiguro. Fine in pictorial printed wrappers.
Ishiguro's understanding of the social role of art music is wonderful. Nothing professional musicians or academics (and I am one) comes close; we ignore or defend the effete, the ridiculous, the nonsensical. I am tremendously impressed by the knowledge underlying this satire.
