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A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills

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Written by Kazuo IshiguroAuthor Alerts: Random House will alert you to new works by Kazuo Ishiguro

  • Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
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  • Publisher: Vintage
  • On Sale: September 12, 1990
  • Price: $14.95
  • ISBN: 978-0-679-72267-0 (0-679-72267-X)
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The highly acclaimed first novel by the author of The Remains of the Day and Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her eldest daughter. In a story where past and present confuse in a haunting and macabre way, Etsuko relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II as she recounts the calamities of her own life.

"A delicate, ironic, elliptical novel, A Pale View of Hills means much more than it says...Its characters are remarkably convincing...but what one remembers is its balance, halfway between elegy and irony."
--The New York Times Book Review