An Artist Of The Floating World

About the Book: An Artist of the Floating World A Japanese artist looks back on his life in this celebrated and prize-winning novel Winner of the Whitbread Book of the Year and shortlised for the Booker prize It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity ofWorld War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking tothe future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his daysattending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughtersand his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates inquiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But ashis memories continually return to the past -to a life and a careerdeeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism -a dark shadowbegins to grow over his serenity. About the Author: Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and came toBritain at the age of five. He is the author of seven A Pale Viewof Hills, An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day,The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go andNocturnes. In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services toLiterature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier deLOrdre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wifeand daughter.