An Artist of the Floating World
KAZUO ISHIGURO

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro 38 reviews (1986) (208p) Man Booker Prize Finalist

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Book Description

This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel.

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In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story of Masuji Ono, a bohemian artist and purveyor of the night life who became a propagandist for Japanese imperialism during the war. But the war is over. Japan lost, Ono's wife and son have been killed, and many young people blame the imperialists for leading the country to disaster. What's left for Ono? Ishiguro's treatment of this story earned a 1986 Whitbread Prize.

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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro 3032 reviews (2005) (304p) (NBCCA) (Booker) (TIME) (Amazon) (ALA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro 219 reviews (2000) (352p) (Booker) (Amazon) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro 149 reviews (1995) (544p) (ALA) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 218 reviews (1989) (256p) (Booker) (NYTimes) Read Reviews | Visit this book's Amazon.com page

Kazuo Ishiguro Award Stats

Major Prize* Nominations 8   Unique Books Nominated for a Major Prize* 6   Pulitzer Prize Wins 0   Pulitzer Prize Nominations 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Wins 0   National Book Critics Circle Award Nominations 1 Never Let Me Go ·   National Book Award Wins 0   National Book Award Nominations 0   Man Booker Prize Wins 1 The Remains of the Day ·   Man Booker Prize Nominations 4 An Artist of the Floating World · The Remains of the Day · When We Were Orphans · Never Let Me Go ·   PEN/Faulkner Award Wins 0   PEN/Faulkner Award Nominations 0

*Major Prize = Pulitzer Prize, National Book Critics Circle Award, National Book Award, Man Booker Prize, and PEN/Faulkner Award

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