A Pale View of Hills
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day

Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.
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A Pale View of Hills
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day

Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.
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A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills

by Kazuo Ishiguro
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A Pale View of Hills

A Pale View of Hills

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day

Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

Product Details

ISBN-13: 9780679722670
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 09/12/1990
Series: Vintage International
Edition description: Reissue
Pages: 192
Product dimensions: 5.15(w) x 7.96(h) x 0.49(d)
Lexile: 660L (what's this?)

About the Author

About The Author
Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes The Buried Giant, Nocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, and An Artist of the Floating World.
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Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature
Kazuo Ishiguro Wins The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature

The announcement that Kazuo Ishiguro has been awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature is the sort of news that makes you frown and think, wait, he hasn’t won that already? Since the publication of his first novel, A Pale View of Hills, in 1982, Ishiguro has staked out a place in the literary world […]

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Awards
Fiction
Literature
World Fiction
Fiction Subjects
Literary Fiction
English, Scottish, & Welsh Fiction
Family & Friendship - Fiction
English Fiction - 20th Century - 1945-2000
Family Illness & Death - Fiction
Friendship - Fiction
Books by Nobel Prize in Literature Laureates->2011-2020

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