An Artist of the Floating World
Synopsis
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to creep.
Author Biography
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in November 1954 but moved to Britain in 1960. He won the Booker Prize in 1989 with The Remains of the Day, and was shortlisted in 1986 for An Artist of the Floating World, in 2000 for When We Were Orphans and in 2005 for Never Let Me Go. He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998. He lives in London.
