The unconsoled - kazuo ishiguro

Only the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day could have created this daring and stunningly inventive new novel.

The Unconsoled gives readers what is at once a riveting psychological mystery, an acute satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public self has taken on a life of its own.

Ishiguro writes with his characteristic grace and off-beat pungency.

--Los Angeles Times.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day , here is a novel that 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.