Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

<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><br>  <br> 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.<br><br></p>