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As Japan rebuilds her cities after the calamity of World War II, the celebrated painter Masuji Ono should be enjoying a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism, a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
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Contemplative, grave, prestige and earnest.
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- unpretentiousprestige
- earnestironic
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 1986
- Pages
- 218
- Publisher
- Chivers Press, Thorndike Press, FOLIO
- Editions
- 26
- Language
- Japanese, tur, German, French
- ISBN
- 9780571330386
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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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