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An artist of the floating world / Kazuo Ishiguro.

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories return to the past and a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

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Adult fiction   Manunda Branch . . Available .  
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ISBN 9780571283873 (pbk.)
057128387X (pbk.)
Author Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- author.
Title An artist of the floating world / Kazuo Ishiguro.
Published London : Faber and Faber, 2013,
Physical description 206 pages ; 20 cm.
General note Originally published: 1986.
Summary It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories return to the past and a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
Subject Allied Occupation of Japan (1945-1952)
World War, 1939-1945
Psychological fiction
Fathers and daughters -- Fiction
Older men -- Fiction
Artists
Fiction
Artists
World War, 1939-1945 -- Art and the war -- Fiction
Popular literature
Historical fiction
Psychological fiction
Psychological fiction
Historical fiction
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