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As usual Ishiguro's prose is impeccable but this one was hard and slow to read. The main character, a famous musician arrives in an undetermined European country to give a concert. What follows is a series of confusing events that happen to him as obstacles to his plans and with characters that are at times apathetic, depressing and cruel. We don't know if the events are real or imaginary, we lose the sense of time and place, making it a real exasperating task to get to the next page and to the
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Much weirder than Ishiguro's other work, but his sense of style and character development is very much still in evidence. Every choice he makes feeds back to bringing you fully into Ryder's sense of confusion, and you have to be impressed by such a tightly-drawn structure even if it doesn't entirely make sense.
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