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Chargement... A Pale View of Hills (original 1982; édition 1990)par Kazuo Ishiguro
Information sur l'oeuvreLumière pâle sur les collines par Kazuo Ishiguro (1982)
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Reason read: TBR takedown, Reading 1001. This was Ishiguro's debut novel. It is set in post WWII. To me it is a story of family and changes in family following the war. It also explores the suicide death of a daughter. It is a bit scrambled with past and present mixed up so that does make the story line a bit hard to follow. Over all I did enjoy the book.
A Pale View of Hills is eery and tenebrous. It is a ghost story, but the narrator, Etsuko, does not realize that. She is the widow of an Englishman, and lives alone and rather desolate in an English country house. Her elder daughter, Keiko, the child of her Japanese first husband, killed herself some years before. The novel opens during a visit from her younger daughter, Niki, the child of her English second husband. Etsuko recalls her past, but Niki, a brusque, emancipated Western girl, is not very sympathetic. Her visit is uncomfortable and uncomforting, and she cuts it short: not only because of the lack of rapport with her mother, but because she can't sleep. Keiko's unseen ghost keeps her awake. ''A Pale View of Hills'' is Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel. Its characters, whose bursts of self-knowledge and honesty erase their inspired self-deceptions only briefly, are remarkably convincing. It is filled with surprise and written with considerable charm. But what one remembers is its balance, halfway between elegy and irony. Prix et récompensesListes notables
La 4e de couverture indique : "Après le suicide de sa fille aînée, Etsuko, une Japonaise installée en Angleterre, se replonge dans les souvenirs de sa vie. Keiko, née d'un premier mariage au Japon, ne s'est jamais acclimatée à l'Angleterre, et surtout elle n'accepta pas le remariage de sa mère avec un homme qu'elle considéra toute sa vie comme un parfait étranger. Mais peut-être l'explication du drame demeure-t-elle enfouie dans le Japon de l'après-guerre, à Nagasaki, ville martyre qui se relevait des plaies de la guerre et du traumatisme de la bombe, durant cet étrange été où, alors qu'elle attendait la naissance de Keiko, Etsuko se lia d'amitié avec la plus solitaire de ses voisines, Sachiko, une jeune veuve qui élevait sa fille, la petite Mariko..." Aucune description trouvée dans une bibliothèque |
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The biggest surprise about it was how much I disliked it after really enjoying Never Let Me Go. ( )