A Pale View of Hills

novel by Ishiguro

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  • Kazuo Ishiguro
    In Kazuo Ishiguro

    Ishiguro’s first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982), details the postwar memories of Etsuko, a Japanese woman trying to deal with the suicide of her daughter Keiko. Set in an increasingly Westernized Japan following World War II, An Artist of the Floating World (1986) chronicles the life…

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