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An Artist of the Floating World
by Ishiguro, Kazuo
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- Paperback
- Condition
- New
- ISBN 10
- 057128387X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571283873
- Seller
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Tokyo, Japan
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About This Item
Faber & Faber, 2013. Paperback. New. Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honour s, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work h as been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Nev er Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editio ns alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recen t novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at number 1 on t he Sunday Times bestseller list.
Synopsis
An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions.
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- Bookseller
- Infinity Books Japan
(JP)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- RWARE0000066927
- Title
- An Artist of the Floating World
- Author
- Ishiguro, Kazuo
- Format/Binding
- Paperback
- Book Condition
- New
- Quantity Available
- 1
- ISBN 10
- 057128387X
- ISBN 13
- 9780571283873
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Place of Publication
- United Kingdom.
- Date Published
- 2013
- Bookseller catalogs
- Japan / Fiction;
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