A Pale View of Hills
Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro / From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
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A Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. He received a £1000 advance from publishers Faber and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor.[1]
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Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
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Country | England |
Language | English |
Genre | Novel |
Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | February 1982 |
Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
Pages | 192 pp (hardback first edition) |
ISBN | 0-571-11866-6 (hardback first edition) |
OCLC | 8303689 |
Followed by | An Artist of the Floating World |
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A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman living alone in England, and opens with discussion between Etsuko and her younger daughter, Niki, about the recent suicide of Etsuko's older daughter, Keiko.