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The Unconsoled

By Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro is a surreal narrative focusing on Ryder, a renowned pianist visiting an unnamed European city. Supposed to perform a highly anticipated concert, Ryder becomes entangled in a series of increasingly bizarre encounters and obligations, all while grappling with his own disorientation and explored themes of memory and identity. The book presents a dreamlike exploration of responsibility and expectation, maintaining a sense of vagueness that leaves much open to interpretation.
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You might enjoy this book if you appreciate intricately woven tales that delve into the complexities of memory and identity. It offers a dreamlike narrative that challenges conventional storytelling, engaging readers with its unique structure and profound thematic exploration. If you're a fan of novels that provoke deeper reflection and linger in the imagination, this book may resonate with you.

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A haunting and utterly original novel in which a famous pianist confronts unresolved emotional aspects of his life.

The Unconsoled is an utterly original masterpiece by Kazuo Ishiguro, the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant.

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The Unconsoled follows Ryder, a renowned pianist who arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. As he traverses a landscape that is by turns eerie and comical—and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be—he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.

Ishiguro's extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification, and the highest praise.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571283897

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 07 February 2013

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Main - Re-issue

Audience: General / adult

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 32.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 445g

Pages: 544

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About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize). He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.

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