TY  - BOOK
AU  - Ishiguro,Kazuo
TI  - An artist of the floating world
SN  - 057133038X
AV  - PR6059.S5 I84 2016
U1  - 823.92 23
PY  - 2016///
CY  - London
PB  - Faber & Faber
KW  - Artists
KW  - Fiction
KW  - Fathers and daughters
KW  - Older men
KW  - Psychological fiction
KW  - World War, 1939-1945
KW  - Art and the war
KW  - Japan
KW  - History
KW  - Allied occupation, 1945-1952
KW  - Historical fiction
N1  - P.B
N2  - 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 house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity
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