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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**

FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER LET ME GO
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

An exquisite novel.' Observer
Pitch-perfect. . . a tour de force of unreliable narration.' Guardian
A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.' Sunday Times

An Artist of the Floating World

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      Publisher Faber & Faber
      Published 7 February 2013
      ISBN-13 9780571283873
      978-0571283873
      ISBN-10 057128387X
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      Fiction Contemporary Fiction Crime & Thrillers Books by Kazuo Ishiguro

      Description

      Book Synopsis

      **AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**

      FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER LET ME GO
      SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
      WINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR

      1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

      An exquisite novel.' Observer
      Pitch-perfect. . . a tour de force of unreliable narration.' Guardian
      A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.' Sunday Times

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