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An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro
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Description for An Artist of the Floating World
Paperback. It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. Num Pages: 208 pages. BIC Classification: FA. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 199 x 127 x 13. Weight in Grams: 172.
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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 ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2013
Publisher
Faber & Faber
Condition
New
Format
Paperback
Number of Pages
272
Place of Publication
London, United Kingdom
ISBN
9780571283873
SKU
9780571283873
Shipping Time
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Ref
99-1
About Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed ... Read more
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