The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

About The Book

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical – and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be – he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro’s extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification – and the highest praise.

A masterpiece. It is above all a book devoted to the human heart. ― The Times

[Ishiguro] is an original and remarkable genius. The Unconsoled is the most original and remarkable book he has so far produced. ― New York Times Book Review

Almost certainly a masterpiece.

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. ― New Yorker

One of the strangest books in memory. ― Times Literary Supplement --This text refers to the paperback edition.

About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and came t o Britain at the age of five. He attended the University of Kent and studied English Literature and Philosophy, and later enrolled in an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of the novels A Pale View of Hills (winner of the Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (winner of the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, and shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (winner of the 1989 Booker Prize) and When We Were Orphans (shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize and Whitbread Novel of the Year).Kazuo Ishiguro's books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. The Remains of the Day became an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold in the English language alone, and was adapted into an award-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.In 1995 Ishig --This text refers to the paperback edition.