Chelsea
Written on Apr 2, 2020
'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch...' In a sublime short story collection, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede. If you enjoyed Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.
- ISBN10 0307273083
- ISBN13 9780307273086
- Publish Date 22 September 2009 (first published 1 January 2009)
- Publish Status Active
- Publisher Random House USA Inc
- Imprint Vintage Books
- Format eBook
- Pages 120
- Language English
Reviews
brokentune
Written on Jul 15, 2014
Way too slow-paced and subtle to keep me focused on the stories.
Proper review to follow. Maybe. Or not.
Suffice it to say that some authors can pull off short stories but are not great at novels, and some are great novelists but struggle to deal with the confines of the short story format. Very few can do both.
I love Ishiguro as a novelist.
Eve1972
Written on Oct 6, 2009