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An Artist of the Floating World

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An Artist of the Floating World

Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: David Case
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1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of WWII, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future.

The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; 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.

©2014 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2014 Faber & Faber
Genre Fiction Literary Fiction War & Military
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A story of remembrance , regret and redemption in refined language of Ishiguro's, at the backdrop of 2nd world War.

fleeting essence with time.

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