The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
The Unconsoled, Kazuo Ishiguro
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The Unconsoled

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrator: Simon Vance

Unabridged: 19 hr 30 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Publisher: Tantor Media

Published: 12/07/2017


Synopsis

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control.

The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.

About Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.


Reviews

Goodreads review by Jim on August 21, 2018

The author is Japanese-born but British enough through education and upbringing to have written The Remains of the Day. This is a long novel (more than 500 pages) that is like a Kafka dream, or better, nightmare. An eminent pianist wanders in a dream-like state through an unnamed central European ci......more

Goodreads review by William2 on December 21, 2024

Thoughts on my second reading of The Unconsoled. The novel's form, I believe, is a veiled commentary on the text's processes and progress. Structurally, it may be Ishiguro’s most daring novel. It must have been awfully hard to write; the prose is lighter than air. It strikes me as Ishiguro's most Kaf......more

Goodreads review by Emily on April 12, 2008

Having loved all his other novels, I finally got around to reading Ishiguro's The Unconsoled, and boy, was it strange and wonderful. I'd heard a vast array of opinions about this book, from "It is one of my top ten novels of all time" to "I loved it in a tense, uncomfortable way" to "it was an unmit......more

Goodreads review by Beth on February 21, 2012

I felt a tremendous sense of relief that I had finally completed Ishiguros’s The Unconsoled. I allowed myself to remember the experience of reading it, with its unusual memory-impaired narrator and the endless stream of absurdity and satire, and its improbable, dream-like narration. The more I thoug......more

Goodreads review by Baba on October 15, 2022

From the writer of giants like Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day comes something completely different. Ryder is an accomplished and famous musician who has being invited/hired to appear at a special event that is set to rejuvenate an artistically imploding city in an unnamed West Central Eu......more