num_pages: 206
description: It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
language: English
title: An Artist of the Floating World
titlecomplete: An Artist of the Floating World
characters: Masuji Ono
genres: Fiction, Historical, Asia, Japan, Japanese Literature, Literature, Novels, Contemporary, Historical Fiction, Literary Fiction
ratings_count: 35427
places: Japan
awards: awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 504950400000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel and Book of the Year
publisher: Faber and Faber