535 pages
English language
Published Jan. 5, 1995 by Faber.
Ryder, a musician of international renown, is checking in to a hotel in a city somewhere in Central Europe. He has the distinct recollection he is due to perform in the Civic Concert Hall in a few days time, but as Gustav, the hotel porter, escorts him to his room, it occurs to him there is much more to this visit than he had at first anticipated…
That thing, where you don't quite fit with your surroundings and you don't understand why? Kazuo Ishiguro is the master at describing that, in this book more than any other.
My favorite Ishiguro. But I should add that it is slow and very strange and probably not for everyone.
A brilliant concatenation of anxiety dreams as novel.(53)
