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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

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With a mix of humor and heartbreak, five musicians on the brink of epiphany navigate love, regret and insecurity in this melancholic collection of interconnected stories.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful.

With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor. Here is a fragile, once famous singer, turning his back on the one thing he loves; a music junky with little else to...

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