Kazuo Ishiguro 2 Books Collection Set (An Artist of the Floating World & A Pale View of Hills)

Please Note That The Following Individual Books As Per Original ISBN and Cover Image In this Listing shall be Dispatched<br/><br/>Kazuo Ishiguro 2 Books Collection<br/><br/>An Artist of the Floating<br/>1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past – to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism – a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.<br/><br/>A Pale View of<br/>Kazuo Ishiguro's highly acclaimed debut, first published in 1982, tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories start to take on a disturbing cast.