TY - BOOK AU - Ishiguro, Kazuo TI - The Unconsoled SN - 9780571283897 U1 - 823.914 PY - 2013/// CY - London PB - Faber and Faber KW - Literature-Novel KW - Pianists KW - Musicians KW - Europe KW - English fiction KW - Musical fiction KW - Central Europe KW - Joy of cooking (Rombauer, Irma S.) N2 - Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical- and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be- he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification- and the highest praise ER -