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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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Oct 17, 2017
Keeley
marked it as to-read
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Chris Hammer
marked it as to-read
