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More like three-and-a-half stars. A very introspective novel about the truths and lies we tell ourselves narrated by a Japanese man in 1948-50 as Japan rebuilds after the war. Good writing, but it feels very much like a practice run for The Remains of the Day narrated by a man in a similar situation (all other Ishiguro has been ruined for me by Remains of the Day, which was the first of his novels that I read; it blew my mind and set a high bar).
Set in the post war years in Japan. Characters must face how they acted before and during the war and with the post-war world which may deride their former actions. Unreliable narrator and one who continues to drift off in his commentary to remembrances of former times.
Jul 21, 2015
Jocelyn
marked it as to-read
