An artist of the floating world
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TextPublication details: London Faber and Faber 2013Description: 206pISBN: 9780571283873Subject(s): Literature-Novel | Japan | Artists | Fathers and daughters | Older men | Psychological fiction, Japanese | English fiction | Psychological fiction | Historical fictionDDC classification: 823.914 Summary: 1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and 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 a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
'An exquisite novel.' Observer
'Pitch-perfect . a tour de force of unreliable narration.' Guardian
'A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.' Sunday Times
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Winner of the Whitbread Book of the year
Shortlisted for the Booker Prize
1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and 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 a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
'An exquisite novel.' Observer
'Pitch-perfect . a tour de force of unreliable narration.' Guardian
'A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.' Sunday Times
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