Nocturnes Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

From the award winning author of Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories, which is as affecting as it is beautiful.

With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor. Here is a fragile, once famous singer, turning his back on the one thing he loves; a music junky with little else to offer his friends but opinion; a songwriter who inadvertently breaks up a marriage; a jazz musician who thinks the answer to his career lies in changing his physical appearance; and a young cellist whose tutor has devised a remarkable way to foster his talent. For each, music is a central part of their lives and, in one way or another, delivers them to an epiphany.

"Ishiguro is, as always, a master of style and tone Nocturnes builds into a melancholic soundtrack. We're helpless to do anything but listen."-Time Out New York

"Tight and assured Suffused with sympathy." -Time

“These stories recall Ishiguro's best known novel, The Remains of the Day By now it is clear that this exquisite stylist is serious in his pursuit of a minimal perhaps even universal mode of expression for the emotional experiences that define our lives as human.”-The Times, London

“Superb a deceptively plain and easy style that rides on the surfaces of manners and decorous behavior.”-Providence Journal

"A brilliant new book art, its dangers, its pains and its gaiety are all topics seriously considered in this accomplished book."-Frank Kermode, London Review of Books

"Ishiguro blends musical concepts with their literary counterparts in his latest work, and Nocturnes has the quality of a song cycle with recurring themes and motifs developed in different prose keys."-Bookmarks magazine

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