Paperback, 206 pages
English language
Published Feb. 7, 2013 by Faber & Faber.
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; 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 career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
(From Goodreads.)
Gentle and beautifully written. Ishiguro can write in any genre simply and elegantly. I prefer The Sleeping Giant slightly but only because the atmosphere is so special in that book.
