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From the book jacket: It is the story of a man named Ryder. He is a pianist of international renown who has arrived in a European city he cannot identify to give a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. In the days before the concert, he is led in and out of the lives of seeming strangers, but his fleeting recollections of them and of his purpose among them are invariably overwhelmed by their inexplicable knowledge and expectations of him.
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From the book jacket: It is the story of a man named Ryder. He is a pianist of international renown who has arrived in a European city he cannot identify to give a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. In the days before the concert, he is led in and out of the lives of seeming strangers, but his fleeting recollections of them and of his purpose among them are invariably overwhelmed by their inexplicable knowledge and expectations of him.
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I really do not understand why this book gets such high reviews. I spent the first 200 pages trying to work out what was happening the next 200 just accepting that it was happing and the final 150 wondering why i was continuing to read about it happening. It felt like a giant episode of "Mr Ben" in his dressing up shop with smoking mirrors expanding and contracting rooms, towns that appeared and disappeared and the "night bus" from Harry Potter thrown in. Other reviews talk about it being deeply
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Ishiguro's writing is compelling, but I hated this book. It's one big anxiety dream, in a hurry to do something, but everything changing and going wrong. I had to stop reading it at bedtime because it induced bad dreams. I kept expecting the protagonist to wake from his sleep on the plane at the beginning and everything would be OK. It never was.
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