Serenade: Music and Twilight Five Stories (work by 2017 Nobel Prize Winner Kazuo Ishiguro)
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About This Novel
This book is the author's first collection of short stories. The whole book uses music as a clue and consists of five seemingly independent but interrelated stories. The main characters in the story are all related to music: a frustrated restaurant musician, a faded singer, a self-admired cellist, a saxophonist who was forced to undergo plastic surgery for success, etc. Most of them are passionate about music but full of complaints about life. The plot may be absurd or lamentable. Using the theme of musical life, it expresses the author's consistent reflection on the living conditions of modern people: the gap between ideals and reality, the mockery of fate, the torture of talent, and the suppressed emotions controlled by the huge social machine...
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Official(5)Scraped 7h ago
I read Ishiguro's book because he won the award. It is indeed unique and needs to be digested carefully.
Another buried masterpiece
No one is watching? ....
Prepare these graduation thesis
Different from the novels I read before
It is different from the novels I have read before, and every little story is intriguing. I really like foreign literature~
An example of combining music and literature
Really well written. I finished reading the first article, written from the perspective of "me", about the love story of a singer named Gardner. In fact, short stories are more difficult to write than long stories, and even more difficult to shine. But I have to say that the author's plots are perfect. It has that lazy European free style feel from the beginning. Including singing on a Venetian boat Including many common features about "people" It's really beautiful!
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Official(5)Scraped 7h ago
I read Ishiguro's book because he won the award. It is indeed unique and needs to be digested carefully.
Another buried masterpiece
No one is watching? ....
Prepare these graduation thesis
Different from the novels I read before
It is different from the novels I have read before, and every little story is intriguing. I really like foreign literature~
An example of combining music and literature
Really well written. I finished reading the first article, written from the perspective of "me", about the love story of a singer named Gardner. In fact, short stories are more difficult to write than long stories, and even more difficult to shine. But I have to say that the author's plots are perfect. It has that lazy European free style feel from the beginning. Including singing on a Venetian boat Including many common features about "people" It's really beautiful!
