- Fiction, Literature, Musicians, English Short stories
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . .
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- sparerichly built
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About the book
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 2009
- Pages
- 240
- Publisher
- Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Anagrama, A.A. Knopf Canada
- Editions
- 34
- Language
- Polish, Spanish, Arabic, Russian
- ISBN
- 9780307397881
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 2017 citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro)
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