The Unconsoled (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9780679735878)

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that 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.

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN-10: 0679735879
ISBN-13: 9780679735878
Publisher: Vintage
Language: English
Published: 10/01/1996
Pages: 544
Format: Paperback
Weight: 1.20lbs
Size: 8.00h x 5.10w x 1.10d

Review Citation(s):
New York Times 10/20/1996 pg. 36
New York Times 12/08/1996 pg. 101
Publishers Weekly 09/03/1996