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Serenade Author: [British] Kazuo Ishiguro Subtitle: Five Stories of Music and Dusk
Serenade Author: [British] Kazuo Ishiguro Subtitle: Five Stories of Music and Dusk
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Introduction · · · · · ·
This is the author's first collection of short stories. The book is based on music and consists of five seemingly independent but interrelated stories. The main characters in the stories are all related to music: an unsuccessful restaurant musician, a singer who has lost his glory, a self-admiring cellist, a saxophone player who was forced to undergo plastic surgery in order to succeed, etc. Most of them are deeply in love with music but full of complaints about life. The plots are either absurd or sad. Through the theme of music life, the author expresses his consistent reflection on the living conditions of modern people: the gap between ideals and reality, the mockery of fate, the torture of talent, and the suppressed emotions under the control of the huge social machine...
It is worth mentioning that most of the musicians, singers and song titles that appear in the book are real, making people feel as if they are among the popular singers and classic songs from the 1950s to the 1980s; and music is exactly what the author had dabbled in, immersed in, and even determined to pursue when he was young.
About the Author · · · · · ·
Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese-British novelist, was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954. He won the Booker Prize in 1989 and is known as one of the "three great immigrants in British literature" along with Naipaul and Rushdie.
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