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    <body><![CDATA[En esta primera novela de Ishiguro ya están claros sus temas y su estilo. El tema: el recuerdo, el trauma y cómo construye la identidad (con el fondo histórico de la bomba sobre Nagasaki, en este caso). El estilo: lenguaje llano, construcción lentísima e hipnótica de la historia, en el que cad...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/41779687">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[Ishiguro, Kazuo.  A PALE VIEW OF HILLS.  (1982).  ****.  This was the author’s first novel, and was a marvelous beginning to his long career.  It is a sensitive novel about the effects of change as they are forced upon a defeated country.  Our narrator is a woman from Nagasaki, now living in Engla...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/40887215">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This is Ishiguro's very first novel and, as in all his other books, he does not fail to intrigue the reader! I would have rated this a 4 star, were it not for the fact that this is such a dark novel.<br/><br/>The story is about a Japanese woman (Etsuko), living in England, who looks back upon her ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81250756">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[First, if you haven't read Kazuo Ishiguro, go and do it.  Right now.  One of the best writers working right now, I can't recommend him highly enough.  Start with <em>The Remains of the Day</em>, a quiet, haunting novel that packs a punch and will have you thinking about it long after you've finished its page...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/80404542">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I really enjoyed this debut book from Ishiguro which takes place in Nagasaki within a decade after the atomic bomb and in present day England.  Ishiguro does not reveal too much about his protagonist, Etsuko, or the lives of the people around her -- her daughter(s), her father in law, her ex-husband...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/77300791">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[superb - oscillating between post-war Nagasaki and (years later) England...so subtly done - there is an element of magic realist/nouveau roman conundrum but he avoids the trap of it turning into an intellectual game - it's haunting and poetic]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I need a WTH folder in my books... I love Ishiguro's &quot;Remains of the Day&quot; and I love his style - it's kind of dreamy, peaceful, descriptive, humane. This story is about loss and moving on, memory and it's shortcomings, family relationships, and change where modernity is replacing tradition...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/58720358">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[This book leaves you with more questions than answers but it does not leave your mind.  How do we remember the past and how, in remembering do we deal with our traumas? Ishiguro carefully navigates the world of memories, some suppressed and some incompletely articulated with a mastery that foreshado...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/67113792">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[A Pale View of Hills was Ishiguro's first novel, and he doesn't demonstrate the narrative control here that he used so well in The Remains of the Day. But A Pale View of Hills is just as powerful and interesting in its exploration of regret (and denial, once again). In this novel, Ishiguro makes goo...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/81762982">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[At the end of this book, which we read aloud together, my mom burst into tears. &quot;The mothers were just so awful,&quot; she said. Though I didn't have quite as intense a reaction--no tears, though the sight of your mom crying always makes you want to cry, right?--, I was impressed by the suddenn...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/46050622">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I bought this after seeing it mentioned in a Guardian guide to the &quot;Top 10 Ghost Stories&quot; - also knowing the author Ishiguro after enjoying 'Never Let Me Go.' It's not a ghost story as such, but like NLMG it gives you that slightly chilling, uneasy feeling that something is terribly wrong ...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/59517632">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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    <body><![CDATA[I have a better understanding of Kazuo Ishiguro's writing style after reading this book, but I don't think I really got what he was going for.  I read some more about his work and apparently his themes and style are more artfully handled in other novels than in his first work.  Without the aid of ot...<a href="http://www.goodreads.com/review/show/48938793">more...</a>]]></body>
    
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