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Maureen asked this question about The Unconsoled:
Am I the only reader who found this book a never-ending loquacious boring bag of misery?
Blaine I'm not quite finished with it, but it's easily my favorite of Ishiguro's corpus (and he is, IMO, the greatest living author). I can see why some woul…moreI'm not quite finished with it, but it's easily my favorite of Ishiguro's corpus (and he is, IMO, the greatest living author). I can see why some would dislike it, however; surrealism is an acquired taste and perhaps not what one would expect from Kazuo Ishiguro.(less)
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by Kazuo Ishiguro (Goodreads Author)
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