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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Vintage International) / Ishiguro, Kazuo | |
Publisher: Vintage | |
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Sales Rank: 409289 | |
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From the award-winning author of Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories, which is as affecting as it is beautiful.
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With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor. Here is a fragile, once famous singer, turning his back on the one thing he loves; a music junky with little else to offer his friends but opinion; a songwriter who inadvertently breaks up a marriage; a jazz musician who thinks the answer to his career lies in changing his physical appearance; and a young cellist whose tutor has devised a remarkable way to foster his talent. For each, music is a central part of their lives and, in one way or another, delivers them to an epiphany.