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Kazuo Ishiguro
An Artist of the Floating World
Category: Fiction | Published: 1986 | Review Added: Unknown
Having enjoyed The Remains of the Day, I decided to sample this earlier novel by Ishiguro. It was something of a disappointment; not that it's a bad novel by any means. It's just a bit slow-moving and uneventful.
An elderly painter (if I recall correctly) reminisces about his life before the war. He muses on the current state of Japan, and the differences in attitude between the old and the young generations. I think, anyway; I read this back in 1989 so can't remember much about it.
It's very worthy, and readers with a higher boredom threshold than me might enjoy it, as it is well-written.