false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1167958252m/28922.jpg 28922 27 In <i>An Artist of the Floating World</i>, 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. 2464610 book 1986 An Artist of the Floating World total:1256|5:242|4:529|3:390|2:81|1:14| 1256 4672 1970 120 4 7 false false Mon Aug 10 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 10 08:02:38 -0700 2009 Mon Aug 17 22:44:35 -0700 2009 Since the bamboo strip was weakening and about to break
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Ishiguro's narrator is fooling himself for sure throughout his tale, but you almost believe him.

Some wonderfully graceful pacing, with the situations and pages melting into one another, which as one reviewer here remar...more...]]> 4 2 false false Mon Nov 05 15:35:18 -0800 2007 Mon Nov 05 15:40:52 -0800 2007 3 2 false true Tue May 20 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue Apr 22 02:10:43 -0700 2008 Tue May 20 04:21:13 -0700 2008
There are stereotypes that emerge from Japan of a rigid society soaked in traditions and formal ceremonies; of following one's masters or teacher and commanding respect for one's elders. This book demonstrates that in reality Japan is a society at ills be...more...]]> 4 2 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Tue Nov 13 09:57:36 -0800 2007 Tue Nov 13 09:57:36 -0800 2007 more...]]> 4 0 false false Sat Apr 01 00:00:00 -0800 2006 Fri Apr 24 04:00:29 -0700 2009 Fri Apr 24 04:01:40 -0700 2009
Kazuo Ishiguro is definitively one of my favorite contemporary writers and this novel is surely reminding me why? An Artist of the Floating World is first Ishiguro's novel that I've read which is settled in Japan and it brings such a fabulous picture of so many aspects of Japan ...more...]]> 5 2 false false Sun Aug 30 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sat Aug 29 04:15:52 -0700 2009 Sun Aug 30 13:13:28 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Apr 06 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 08:54:22 -0700 2009 Fri May 22 08:54:22 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Oct 05 07:11:11 -0700 2009 Fri Oct 09 05:57:58 -0700 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sat Sep 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Tue Oct 06 19:22:55 -0700 2009 Sat Oct 24 07:08:06 -0700 2009 1 The Remains of the Day. For a while it seemed to me that the narrator was going to be the same kind of character as the other book’s narrator, and that the story was going to be an equally painful look backwards at th...more...]]> 4 1 false false Mon Jan 12 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Jan 04 11:37:16 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 10:20:42 -0800 2009 The Remains of the Day that I was curious what he had to say about his native Japan. Surprisingly, a central focus of the novel turned out to be something frum Jews can relate to very well - shidduchim (commonly mistranslated as...more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Tue Dec 23 05:40:05 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 25 13:06:16 -0800 2009 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Oct 26 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Oct 21 05:33:25 -0700 2009 Mon Oct 26 13:36:33 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Aug 07 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Wed Aug 05 09:10:39 -0700 2009 Fri Aug 07 15:14:01 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Fri Jul 31 21:22:35 -0700 2009 Fri Jul 31 21:24:27 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Nov 05 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Sun Aug 02 18:57:55 -0700 2009 Thu Nov 05 15:46:43 -0800 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Mon Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Fri Oct 31 05:57:13 -0700 2008 Fri Oct 31 05:57:13 -0700 2008
The narrator here, painting a p...more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Sep 29 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Sun Sep 21 18:27:57 -0700 2008 Mon Sep 29 18:15:35 -0700 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Tue Sep 02 05:41:24 -0700 2008 Tue Sep 02 05:42:22 -0700 2008 more...]]> http://www.goodreads.com/book_link/follow/8?book_id=28922