An Artist of the Floating World Contributor(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679722661 ISBN-13: 9780679722663 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: September 1989 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. Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
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 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
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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