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an incredibly funny and bitter 1995 novel about an idyllic european city undergoing a cultural crisis. this book is relentless in its effort to confuse you. at no point do the book’s strange conventions explain or justify themselves - it’s on you to make sense of it. combine Kafka’s Amerika, Calvino’s If On a Winter’s Night a Traveler, and your most vivid dream from childhood and you’ll have some idea of how challenging and spellbinding this book is. Ishiguro doesn’t give a FUCK about following literary conventions, tying things up neatly, or holding the reader’s hand, and that’s what i love about it.
Jan 26, 2024
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Captivating and original and strangely so beautiful, but also a relentless 500+ pg literary embodiment of every stress or anxiety dream I have ever had or anyone ever could ever have
May 1, 2024
Ishiguro is super descriptive and image-evoking in his writing and the dialogue between the two main characters who are an elderly couple is so heartwarming and precious. it's set in early medieval england and has era-appropriate feeling dialogue without any thees, thys, and thous for the most part.
Jun 27, 2024
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On a Kazuo Ishiguro kick in the last few months. Fell for the beautiful, understated humanity of his work.
Feb 13, 2024
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