Nocturnes: Five Stories Of Music And Nightfall

September 21, 2010|
Nocturnes: Five Stories Of Music And Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro
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In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the “hush-hush floor” of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at some moment of reckoning.

Gentle, intimate and witty, Nocturnes is underscored by a haunting theme: the struggle to restoke life’s romance, even as relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.
KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me ...
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Title:Nocturnes: Five Stories Of Music And Nightfall
Format:Paperback
Product dimensions:240 pages, 8 X 5.2 X 0.7 in
Shipping dimensions:240 pages, 8 X 5.2 X 0.7 in
Published:September 21, 2010
Publisher:Knopf Canada
Language:English
Appropriate for ages:All ages
ISBN - 13:9780307397881

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