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Did you ever wonder what it was like in Japan after its defeat in WW II? So here we are in Japan in 1947. Our main character, an older man and an artist, lost his wife in a stray bomb that also destroyed much of his home, and he also lost his only son in the war. But he still has two daughters; one

Second reading. The gist of this novel is the narrator's culpability for his patriotic actions during the war with the U.S. Set in a suburb of Tokyo during the American occupation, the narrator, Masuji Ono, is now surrounded by those who blame him for Japan's disastrous gamble on war and those like

Ishiguro is at his absolute best when he is exploring pain. He takes mundane characters, ordinary people, and demonstrates how the present is perpetually pervaded by the past. Memories shape us and, in some ways, define who we are. There is no moving away from them, no matter how hard we might try. A Leggi tutto

الفن عندما يحمل رسالة الى شعب ما. يحاول المؤلف في أعقاب استسلام اليابان بعد الحرب العالمية الثانية. رسم صورة لمجتمع اليابان بعد الاحداث التي أدت الى تدمير البلاد. والعودة الى الوراء لمحاسبة الذين كان لهم التأثير على ما حدث وَقّاد البلاد الى هذا الدمار. ربما لم يكن تأثير الرسامون واضحا كما هو تأثير ر Leggi tutto

The recipe for this novel is Ten large bags of BLANDNESS 14 kg of EVASION 27 litres of VAGUENESS A bucket or two of INSINUATIONS A generous grating of DARK HINTS Mix well with five enormous slabs of CRUSHING CLASS CONSCIOUSNESS Sprinkle with DISCONCERTINGLY INCOMPLETE SELF-DECEPTION Serve ice cold *** Everyon Leggi tutto