The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber and Faber, UK First Edition, 1995)
The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber and Faber, UK First Edition, 1995)
This Faber and Faber UK first edition, first printing (1995) is of interest to collectors of Kazuo Ishiguro first editions, Booker Prize authors, and contemporary British literary fiction.
About: UK first edition, first printing of Ishiguro's ambitious and dreamlike fifth novel, published two years after his Booker Prize win for The Remains of the Day. A substantial and collectible volume with the striking original dust jacket featuring surrealist cover artwork.
Details:
- Title: The Unconsoled
- Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Publisher: Faber and Faber Limited, London
- Publication Date: 1995
- Edition: 1st Edition, 1st Printing
- Binding: Hardcover
- ISBN: 0-571-17387-X
Synopsis: UK first edition, first printing in original dust jacket. Collectible Ishiguro title from a Nobel Prize-winning author, desirable for bibliophiles and collectors of contemporary British literary fiction.
Review: Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled (1995) is a surrealist, Kafka-esque novel following Ryder, a celebrated pianist who arrives in an unnamed Central European city to give a concert of great local importance, only to find himself drawn into an increasingly labyrinthine series of obligations and encounters. Dreamlike in structure and deeply psychological in tone, it is one of Ishiguro's most ambitious and divisive works - and among the most sought-after of his first editions.