num_pages: 535
description: Librarian note: an alternate cover for this edition can be found here.The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control.The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past.In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit."A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before."--The New Yorker
language: English
title: The Unconsoled
titlecomplete: The Unconsoled
characters: Boris, Stephan Hoffman, Mr. Hoffman, Mr. Ryder, Sophie, Miss Collins, Gustav, Leo Brodsky, Miss Stratmann
genres: 20th Century, Literary Fiction, Novels, Music, Literature, Fantasy, Japan, British Literature, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 14772
places: Europe, Central Europe
awards: awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Whitbread Award
category: Novel, awardedAt: 788947200000
name: Cheltenham Prize for Literature, awardedAt: 1577865600000
name: Mikael Agricola -palkinto
publisher: Vintage International