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ISBN:	0571225373 (ISBN13: 9780571225378)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize (1982)

A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro

Paperback | Pages: 183 pages

Rating: 3.75 | 18212 Users | 1764 Reviews

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Title	:	A Pale View of Hills
Author	:	Kazuo Ishiguro
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 183 pages
Published	:	March 3rd 2005 by Faber and Faber
Categories	:	Fiction. Cultural. Japan. Historical. Historical Fiction. Asian Literature. Japanese Literature

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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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Ratings: 3.75 From 18212 Users | 1764 Reviews

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prvi roman kazua ishigura.. kao petogodišnji dječak, ishiguro s roditeljima dolazi u englesku gdje su mislili ostati tek privremeno i roditelji sina odgajaju u duhu i kulturi japana računajući sa skorašnjim povratkom u domovinu (ishiguro će tek dekadama kasnije stupiti na japansko tlo) - ta činjenica bila mi je nevjerojatna s obzirom na atmosferu ovog romana smještenog u poslijeratni nagasaki. da to nije otkrio (u sklopu knjige je i ishigurov govor povodom dodjele nobelove nagrade 2017. u kojem

Deeply unsettling how this novel shows the human cost of war reverberatingMemory, I realize, can be an unreliable thing; often it is heavily coloured by the circumstances in which one remembers, and no doubt this applies to certain of the recollections I have gathered here.The time and period the book is set in, Nagasaki just after the second world war, is very interesting. The characters, even the youngest, all struggle with memories from the war (most chillingly culminating in a recollection

274. A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo IshiguroA Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prizewinning author Kazuo Ishiguro. During a visit from her daughter, Niki, Etsuko reflects on her own life as a young woman in Japan, and how she left that country to live in England. As she describes it, she and her Japanese husband, Jiro, had a daughter together, and a few years later Etsuko met a British man and moved with him to England. She took her elder daughter, Keiko, to England to live

4.5/5 The English are fond of their idea that our race has an instinct for suicide, as if further explanations are unnecessary; for that was all they reported, that she was Japanese and that she had hung herself in her room. I had forgotten what an Ishiguro novel is like. Of course, it is customary to treat first works as trial runs in the vein of Icarus, so I wasn't expecting another The Remains of the Day or Never Let Me Go. While my star rating for this doesn't match up to the other two, it

Didn't work for me, unfortunately. I need more than subtle hints at mystery to keep me interested. I was annoyed that virtually the entire novel was told through dialogue. Worse, so much of the dialogue seemed irrelevant. Filtering out the nonsense to find intrigue took too much work. Still, there were some well-crafted scenes so it wasn't all bad. And, thankfully, it is a very slim novel. I'm sure some readers will love it, but beware if you aren't a fan of subtle.



Every once in a while, a book surprises you on the way to its ending. After the first few pages of this book, I figured I knew what to expect - a well written realist novel about a displaced Japanese woman in England who reminisces about her youth while contemplating the choices her children have made. And for most of the book, that impression is borne out. It nicely describes the two countries, how people act and react, and what life has been like for this character throughout her time in both