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The Unconsoled - Kazuo Ishiguro 1995Narrated by: David Case (British)Audiobook Publication: Books on Tape Inc, 1998Length: 19h 55m, unabridgedTracks: 8 chaptersSource: Cassette (home edition)blurb: The Unconsoled is the story of a man named Ryder. He is a pianist of international renown who, as the novel opens, has arrived in a European city he cannot identify to give a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. In the days before the concert, he is led in and out of the lives of seeming strangers, but his fleeting recollections of them and of his purpose among them are invariably overwhelmed by their inexplicable knowledge and expectations of him. What they want of him (what they may already have) may be revealed somewhere amid the physical and emotional landscapes he finds himself traversing: by turns eerie and comical and, always, strangely malleable - as a dream might be, or a nightmare, or the day-to-day reality of a man whose public self has taken on a life of its own.With superb control and a masterly ear for the accents of repression, Ishiguro has created a work that is both farce and nightmare and that explores the terrible wounds that families inflict on their members and societies on their citizens, the cult of culture, and the straightjacket of celebrity, and dramatizes these themes within the arena of an imaginary city that might be located in today's Germany, in Kafka's haunted Central Europe, or in the maddeningly elastic landscape of our dreams.4* Never Let Me Go5* The Remains of the Day1* When We Were Orphans3* An Artist of the Floating World4* A Pale View of HillsCR The Unconsoled