The Unconsoled

Title: The Unconsoled
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Fiction: 1693597
ISBN: 9780679735878
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Published: 1996
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: Reprint
Section: Fiction | Literary
Condition 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"