Pale View of Hills (eBook)

Kazuo Ishiguro (Autor)

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2009 | 1. Auflage
192 Seiten
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-24933-6 (ISBN)

Infos

NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY KEI ISHIKAWA 'A macabre and faultlessly worked enigma.' SUNDAY TIMES 'Outstanding.' OBSERVER 'Extraordinary.' LA TIMES Kazuo Ishiguro's highly acclaimed debut, first published in 1982, 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.

KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His 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 Go have both been made into acclaimed films. He received a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. His latest novel, Klara and the Sun, was a Sunday Times Number One bestseller in both hardcover and paperback. Ishiguro also works occasionally as a screenwriter. His screenplay for the 2022 film Living received Academy Award (Oscar) and BAFTA nominations. Cinema adaptation of Klara and the Sun and A Pale View of the Hills are due for release in 2025., (Shorter/Catalogue version) Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize, and have been translated into over fifty languages. His most recent novel, Klara and the Sun was a number one Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback.

Rezensionen

A delicate, ironic, elliptical novel. Its characters are remarkably convincing. but what one remembers is its balance, halfway between elegy and irony.

A macabre and faultlessly worked enigma.

An original and remarkable genius.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 8.1.2009
• Verlagsort: London
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen
• Schlagworte: atonement ian mcewan • booker prize winner • Deborah Levy Julian Barnes William Boyd Sebastian Faulks • Hamnet the Song of Achilles Clara and the Sun • Haruki Murakami • Japan World War Two fiction • Klara and the Sun Never Let Me Go the Remains of the Day the Buried Giant • nagasaki hiroshima • Naomi Ishiguro Banana Yoshimoto Haruki Murakami Ian McEwan Matt Haig Madeline Miller Richard Powers Sue Monk Kidd • never let me go • Nobel prize winner literature booker prize best selling books lecture • Remains of the day • Vintage Classics Penguin Classics • World War 2
• ISBN-10: 0-571-24933-7 / 0571249337
• ISBN-13: 978-0-571-24933-6 / 9780571249336