TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ishiguro, Kazuo
TI  - A pale view of hills 
SN  - 0571162835
U1  - 823.9 
PY  - 1982///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber and Faber
KW  - English literature
KW  - English fiction
KW  - Japan--Nagasaki-shi
KW  - England
KW  - Mothers and daughters
KW  - Japan
KW  - Japanese fiction
KW  - Female friendship
KW  - Women
KW  - Suicide victims
N2  - Kazuo Ishiguro’s highly acclaimed debut, first published in 1982, tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter.

Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko – a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy – the memories start to take on a disturbing cast.

‘A macabre and faultlessly worked enigma.’ Sunday Times

‘One of the outstanding fictional debuts of recent years.’ Observer

‘A delicate, ironic, elliptical novel … Its characters are remarkably convincing … but what one remembers is its balance, halfway between elegy and irony.’ New York Times Book Review

‘An extraordinarily fine first novel … its themes are deceptively large and uncommonly haunting.’ Los Angeles Times
ER  -