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Carregando... A Pale View of Hills (1982)de Kazuo Ishiguro
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Reason read: TBR takedown, Reading 1001. This was Ishiguro's debut novel. It is set in post WWII. To me it is a story of family and changes in family following the war. It also explores the suicide death of a daughter. It is a bit scrambled with past and present mixed up so that does make the story line a bit hard to follow. Over all I did enjoy the book.
A Pale View of Hills is eery and tenebrous. It is a ghost story, but the narrator, Etsuko, does not realize that. She is the widow of an Englishman, and lives alone and rather desolate in an English country house. Her elder daughter, Keiko, the child of her Japanese first husband, killed herself some years before. The novel opens during a visit from her younger daughter, Niki, the child of her English second husband. Etsuko recalls her past, but Niki, a brusque, emancipated Western girl, is not very sympathetic. Her visit is uncomfortable and uncomforting, and she cuts it short: not only because of the lack of rapport with her mother, but because she can't sleep. Keiko's unseen ghost keeps her awake. ''A Pale View of Hills'' is Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel. Its characters, whose bursts of self-knowledge and honesty erase their inspired self-deceptions only briefly, are remarkably convincing. It is filled with surprise and written with considerable charm. But what one remembers is its balance, halfway between elegy and irony.
The story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a story where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II. Não foram encontradas descrições de bibliotecas. |
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The biggest surprise about it was how much I disliked it after really enjoying Never Let Me Go. ( )