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Synopsis
In Kazuo Ishiguro's memoir-like first novel (1982), Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwells obsessively on the recent suicide of her daughter. She also finds her memory drifting to a long-ago summer in Nagasaki, when the tensions between prewar and postwar habits and traditions were embodied in a woman named Sachiko, who is torn between the two worlds, and Etsuko's husband, Jiro, who has readily adapted to modern Westernized Japan despite what he may feel. Now in exile, Etsuko relives the scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II as well as her daughter's self-destruction, leaving the reader to find the parallels and to harmonize the book's enigmatic ending with all that has gone before. As in all Kazuo Ishiguro's novels, past and present comment on each other in a complex portrait of the Japanese character.
| Details | | Series: | Vintage International Series |
| Size | | Length: | 183 pages | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.5 in | | Weight: | 7.2 oz |
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "Niki, the name we finally gave to my younger daughter, is not an abbreviation; it was a compromise I reached with her father."
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