an artist of the floating world book review

Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability. Kazuo Ishiguro Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Fiction - 208 pages 59 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified From the. Read honest and unbiased product reviews from our users. If you enjoyed An Artist of the Floating World, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics. Find helpful customer reviews and review ratings for An Artist of the Floating World at. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity. I say this in the sense that it didn’t really have that much of an impact on me. Unfortunately, while I enjoyed reading it, having finished it I find that it really didn’t leave much of a mark. But as his memories continually return to the past -to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism -a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity. At 206 pages, the book was a really fast read, finished quite easily in two days. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro(Goodreads Author) 3.78 Rating details 31,169 ratings 2,837 reviews As Japan rebuilds her cities after the calamity of World War II, the celebrated painter Masuji Ono should be enjoying a tranquil retirement. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. An Artist of the Floating World makes reference to the liability of leaders after the war and how many of them were not held responsible, a group from which the narrator implicitly disassociates himself.

An artist of the floating world book review