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Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control.The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past.In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit."A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker
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The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
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- Released
- 1996
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- Title
- The Unconsoled
- Language
- English
- Authors
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Publisher
- Vintage
- Released
- 1996
- Format
- Paperback
- ISBN10
- 0679735879
- ISBN13
- 9780679735878
- Series
- Tags
- Fiction, Fantasy, Historical Fiction, Music Theme, Contemporary Fiction, British Literature, England, English Literature, Identity, Small Town, Absurd Novels
- First published
- 1995
- Original title
- The Unconsoled
- Rating
- 3.6 out of 5
- Description
- Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control.The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past.In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit."A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker