num_pages: 183
description: Librarian note: This a previously-published edition of ISBN 9780571225378.In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.
language: English
title: A Pale View of Hills
titlecomplete: A Pale View of Hills
genres: Asia, Historical Fiction, Historical, Japanese Literature, Literary Fiction, Novels, Literature, Japan, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 32132
places: Nagasaki
awards: awardedAt: 378720000000
name: Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize
publisher: Faber and Faber