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Article: The Unconsoled.(Brief Article)
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- Newsweek
- Article date:
- October 2, 1995
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Kazuo Ishiguro is always mentioned alongside his British contemporaries--Martin Amis, Julian Barnes, Salman Rushdie, Ian McEwan--but he's nothing like them. His prose can be peerlessly subtle, and he doesn't seem to play snooker. Ishiguro's first three novels (including the chilling book about Nagasaki, A Pale View of Hills," and the famous disquisition on the twilight of a butler, "The Remains of the Day") were slender and surprisingly gripping. You never knew Ishiguro had a hold on you until he wouldn't let go. You never knew he was trying to give you the creeps until you got them.
So what on earth is this? Ishiguro's new novel, The Unconsoled (535 pages. Knopf. ...