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In the face of the misery he saw in his homeland, the bohemian artist Masuji Ono envisioned a strong and powerful Japan of the future and put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the devastation of that war, memories of his youth and of the "floating world" - the nocturnal realm of leisure, entertainment, and drink - offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise as an artist. Drifting in disgrace in postwar Japan, indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward.
"Kazuo Ishiguro is...not only a good writer but also a wonderful novelist." (New York Times Book Review)
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- English Books
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3 stars 2 stars 1 star - Paperback 208 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0571225365
- ISBN-13: 9780571225361
- Publisher: Faber and Faber
- Pub date: Mar 03, 2005
- Dimensions: 19 cm x 13 cm x 2 cm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Hardcover, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
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