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Florian

florianec@bookwyrm.social

Joined 1 year, 3 months ago

My mind races with all my longings.

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2024 Reading Goal

23% complete! Florian has read 12 of 52 books.

Kazuo Ishiguro: Unconsoled, The (Paperback, 1999, Faber and Faber) 4 stars

A surrealistic novel on a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing …

Weird and funny

5 stars

In The Unconsoled we follow the pianist Ryder who arrives in a town completely unprepared and without any knowledge of the itinerary and follow him as he is dragged through the story and as he tries to not disappoint the towns citizens which expect him to solve the towns grave problems. Whatever they may be. Not a single scene is played out fully, together with Ryder we are dragged to the next scene and we are left in the dark.

This sounds bad but The Unconsoled is wonderfully written and shines with a dry humor.