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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Автор: Kazuo Ishiguro Жанр: Daedalus Books Издательство: Daedalus Books Год: 2009 Страниц: 221 Дата загрузки: 16 февраля 20112010-06-25
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One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life... A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him... A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met... A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career... A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent... Passion or necessity — or the often uneasy combination of the two — determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp. An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction.
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Never Let Me Go
Автор: Kazuo Ishiguro Жанр: Random House Inc. Издательство: Random House, Inc. Год: 2008 Страниц: 300 Дата загрузки: 28 июня 20102013-08-23
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From The Booker Prize-Winning Ruthor of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special-and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric. Never Let Me Go administers its revelations as precisely as drops of acid
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The Remains of the Day
Автор: Kazuo Ishiguro Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 1999 Страниц: 272 Дата загрузки: 26 февраля 20092000-06-23
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An elderly butler is on a five-day motoring trip through the West Country in the 1950s. The climax of his journey is to be a reunion with his former housekeeper. This 1989 Booker Prize-winner attempts to capture a period in British history and draw a portrait of a man in old age.
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The Remains of the Day (+ Audio CD)
Автор: Kazuo Ishiguro Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2009 Дата загрузки: 7 декабря 20112010-12-07
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It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man’s exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.
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A Pale View of the Hills
Автор: Kazuo Ishiguro Жанр: Faber and Faber Издательство: Faber and Faber Год: 2009 Страниц: 192 Дата загрузки: 15 июня 20112012-04-15
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In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko — a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy — the memories take on a disturbing cast.
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The Remains of the Day
Автор: Kazuo Ishiguro Жанр: Pearson Издательство: Pearson Год: 2009 Страниц: 120 Дата загрузки: 11 июля 20102012-02-29
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Contemporary / British English (Available June 2008) It is the summer of 1956, and the ageing butler of Darlington Hall takes a rare holiday. But it is a journey that will also take him deep into his past. The Remains of the Day is a remarkable story: a man's exploration of his own life, and his heart-breaking attempt to make sense of it.
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