The Unconsoled

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Title: The Unconsoled Author: Kazuo Ishiguro ISBN: 9780679735878 Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group Published: 1996 Binding: Paperback Language: English Edition: Reprint C ondition Note: New from the publisher Publisher Description: The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit."A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before".-- "The New Yorker" Show more