Ukiyo Painter (rainbow Version of Kazuo Ishiguro's Works)
About This Novel
Ukiyo-e of the life of the disillusioned generation after the war. Includes the author's preface written for the 30th anniversary of the book's publication. After the war, Japan was in dire straits. Painter Ono's seemingly idle life in his later years has an undercurrent. In order to create a good social relationship for his little daughter to get married, he regained his memories. The past stories of his old friends were connected one by one like an ukiyo-e, and he was depressed and hesitant about where to place the "artist role" on the battlefield where there was no smoke of gunpowder. This book won the "Whitbread Literary Award". It is an early masterpiece by Ishiguro Kazuo, and it is also the most "Japanese" work. In the preface written for the 30th anniversary of the publication of this book, the author analyzes a kind of "fear" in life, that is, he is afraid that despite good intentions, a person may support a cause that has been proved to be wrong or even shameful by the times and history, and waste his most precious time and talent for this. The new edition includes Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize-winning speech, and reads the Nobel Prize-winning writer's writing views and growth history in one volume.
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