- Suicide victims, Women, Female friendship, Mothers and daughters
In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.
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Grave, contemplative, prestige and earnest.
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 1982
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Faber & Faber, Incorporated, Albatros
- Editions
- 27
- Language
- English, German, French, tur
- ISBN
- 9780571345724
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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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