Nocturnes - (Vintage International) by Kazuo Ishiguro (Paperback)
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<p/><br></br><p><b> About the Book </b></p></br></br>One of the most celebrated writers of our time delivers his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.<p/><br></br><p><b> Book Synopsis </b></p></br></br><p><b>From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel <i>The Remains of the Day</i> comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful. </b> <p/> With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor. Here is a fragile, once famous singer, turning his back on the one thing he loves; a music junky with little else to offer his friends but opinion; a songwriter who inadvertently breaks up a marriage; a jazz musician who thinks the answer to his career lies in changing his physical appearance; and a young cellist whose tutor has devised a remarkable way to foster his talent. For each, music is a central part of their lives and, in one way or another, delivers them to an epiphany. <p/></p><p/><br></br><p><b> Review Quotes </b></p></br></br><br>Expressive and harmonic, delicate yet substantive. . . . [A] true virtuoso performance.--<i>Christian Science Monitor</i> <p/>In both craft and substance Nocturnes reveals a master at work.--<i>Seattle Times</i> <p/>Immaculate.--<i>Los Angeles Times</i> <p/>Ishiguro is, as always, a master of style and tone . . . . [<i>Nocturnes</i>] build[s] into a melancholic soundtrack. We're helpless to do anything but listen.--<i>Time Out New York</i> <p/>Tight and assured. . . . Suffused with sympathy. -<i>-Time</i> <p/>"These stories recall Ishiguro's best known novel, <i>The Remains of the Day</i>. . . . By now it is clear that this exquisite stylist is serious in his pursuit of a minimal - perhaps even universal - mode of expression for the emotional experiences that define our lives as human."--<i>The Times</i>, London <p/>"Superb . . . a deceptively plain and easy style that rides on the surfaces of manners and decorous behavior."--<i>Providence Journal </i> <p/>A brilliant new book . . . art, its dangers, its pains and its gaiety [are] all topics seriously considered in this accomplished book.-<i>Frank Kermode</i>, London Review of Books <p/>Ishiguro blends musical concepts with their literary counterparts in his latest work, and <i>Nocturnes</i> has the . . . quality of a song cycle with recurring themes and motifs developed in different prose keys.--<i>Bookmarks</i> magazine<br><p/><br></br><p><b> About the Author </b></p></br></br><p><b>Kazuo Ishiguro</b> is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both <i>The Remains of the Day</i> and <i>Never Let Me Go </i>have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes <i>The Buried Giant, </i> <i>Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, </i> and <i>An Artist of the Floating World</i>.</p>
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