Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (New Edition)

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (New Edition)

Isbn: 9780571283873

Publisher: Jonathan Ball Publisher

Kazuo Ishiguro’s An Artist of the Floating World delivers a sharp psychological portrait of Masuji Ono, an elderly retired painter grappling with his history as a wartime nationalist propagandist in post-WWII Japan. Moving between 1948 and 1950 under American occupation, the narrative dissects the friction between generational ideals alongside the complex interplay of personal memory, guilt, and self-justification.