Penguin Drop Caps An Artist of the Floating World, (Hardcover)

from klarusu

In this book, Ishiguro brings alive post-war Japan from the Japanese perspective. It focuses on the life of Masuji Ono, an artist, father and grandfather. Set in the backdrop of a changing Japanese society, he retells his personal history in excerpts between descriptions of the marriage negotiati...

from steve02476

Lovely book about an old artist both avoiding and coming to grips with history, perception, memory, and responsibility.

from browner56

Masuji Ono, retired and living in Japan shortly after the end of World War II, is reflecting on the course of his life. Once a celebrated painter who devoted his art to the imperialist regime before and during the war, he is now largely disgraced and blamed for his role in supporting a losing cau...

from cameling

Having spent most of his youth and young adult life in a Japan where unquestioning duty to the national interest was instilled in everyone, artist Masuji Ono now an older man, struggles to understand post-war Japan and the modern views held by his old students, his daughters and why his grandson ...

from eglinton

Limpid, restrained, careful prose. An older narrator of some esteem looking back, aware of missteps, or of feelings misread but only gradually recognising their import. An outlook blinkered in some ways, but still with an aura of stateliness and poise. Not a lot of action, but just enough nostalg...