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24 May 2008

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Kazuo Ishiguro - An Artist of the Floating World

I like this book very much so far.
It kind of reminds me of Hemingway's The Old Man and the Sea, as in both books there isn't really a lot happening but they are written in such a manner that you still just float through the book while having that content feeling of reading a very good book.
It's one of those books where you aren't checking which page your on, how much of it that's left, how many hours it will take to finish it and thinking about what you will read next.

Ishiguro's novels share certain qualities. The chronology of his plotting is elaborate and the narration is highly subjective. His ability to capture the details and atmosphere of a period has received high praise.

An Artist of the Floating World (1986) is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It is set in post-World War II Japan and is narrated by Masuji Ono, an aging painter, who looks back on his life and how he has lived it. He notices how his once great reputation has faltered since the war and how attitudes towards him and his paintings have changed. The chief conflict deals with Ono's need to accept responsibility for his past actions. The novel attempts to ask and answer the question: what is man's role in a rapidly changing environment?

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