Verlag: Vintage Books, New York, 1986
ISBN 10: 0679722661 ISBN 13: 9780679722663
Anbieter: FESTINA LENTE italiAntiquariaat, Lucca, Italien
Erstausgabe
Paperback. Zustand: UNSPECIFIED. 1st edition. 'Vintage International'. Design: Mare J. Cohen. Kazuo Ishiguro, born 8 November 1954 is a Japanese-born British novelist. The novel's title is based on the literal translation of Ukiyo-e, a word referring to the Japanese art of prints. Therefore, it can be read as 'a printmaker' or 'an artist living in a changing world', given both Ono's limited understanding and the dramatic changes his world, Japan in the first half of the twentieth century, has undergone in his lifetime. The novel was shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize and won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award for the same year. 206 pag. Size: 20cmx13cm.