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An Artist of the Floating World
Contributor(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo (Author)

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ISBN: 0679722661     ISBN-13: 9780679722663
Publisher: Vintage
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Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: September 1989
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Annotation: This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel.

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Additional Information
BISAC Categories:
- Fiction | Literary
- Fiction | Historical - General
- Fiction | Asian American
Dewey: FIC
LCCN: 89040288
Lexile Measure: 1060(Not Available)
Series: Vintage International
Physical Information: 0.59" H x 5.2" W x 8" L (0.51 lbs) 208 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Japanese
- Chronological Period - 1940's
- Chronological Period - 1950's
Features: Price on Product
Review Citations: Commonweal 12/07/2001 pg. 24
Accelerated Reader Info
Quiz #: 78277
Reading Level: 7.1   Interest Level: Upper Grades   Point Value: 11.0
 
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Publisher Description:
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day

In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he 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 aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the floating world--the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

 
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