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This is a great book. It's very hard to review books on amazon or in general as different people have different tastes and styles of reading. I think it is a thoughtfully written book and the diction is so poetic. At the same time, it is so unsettling that I checked under my bed a couple of times and locked my room door while reading. It is a rare thing for me to have a book that makes me feel unsettled/creeped out while there is nothing overtly wrong happening. I am a fan.


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Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro 9780571225378 Books Reviews

If you, like me, delight in reading books that go beyond just stimulating the visceral senses, Kazuo Ishiguro is an author whose books you want to add to your library - for repeated readings, I dare say.

Ishiguro's tale-telling in the first person narrative is spell-binding. The title can have multiple meanings, depending on which aspect of the book you are focusing on. I know I will definitely need to reread this novel again to put all the pieces together.

Is Sachiko Etsuko's projection of herself? Is Mariko representative of Keiko? To hear Etsuko switch to the first person when talking to Mariko near the river at the end of the novel really packed a punch. Had I considered such at other points in the book? Yes. But, to have it simply pop out there at the last minute was like cold water being splashed on my face.

The reference to Etsuko hanging onto something that caught on her foot while crossing the river was obviously a metaphor to her hanging onto the past. Mariko running away, right after asking why Etsuko was hanging onto that, was that Keiko fading in her memory or Etsuko questioning herself?

Our memories certainly do fade with time and can become quite unreliable, particularly if we are reviewing decisions and behaviors we would rather not recall. Given Keiko's suicide most likely being connected with Etsuko's decision to move to the United States certainly is reason for her to want to rewrite history to alleviate guilt.

I saw the cover from an earlier release of this book and it shows a Japanese woman - just her head - wearing a mask. This reinforces the ending of this book ... that Sachiko is really a mask Etsuko wears in her mind as she recalls the irrevocable decisions, and their consequences, of her past.

I finished reading A Pale View Of Hills three weeks ago and am still mulling it over in my mind. I plan to reread it again, looking for the subtle clues Ishiguro has surely placed throughout the book, but until then I will simply enjoy the experience of mulling over this literary work of art.
Beautiful writing; intriguing characters; excellent picture of Japan and especially Nagasaki after WWII.

In his first book, Ishiguro tells his story elegantly and elliptically. And therein lies the problem the story is a bit too enigmatic. There are many dropped hints, and indeed plot threads, that seem to be incomplete. If his intent was to show the unreliability and fragility of memory, then the author succeeds admirably. But if he wanted to tell a complete story, his book falls short.

I would have loved to give this 5 stars, but couldn't quite do it.
'The Remains of the Day' is pretty much my favourite novel ever, but Ishiguro's other books haven't reached that exalted standard. His shtick is to drop the reader without explanation into an exotic locale where there's something going on beneath the surface. You keep reading to find out what is going on (also because of the unfamiliar locale and Ishiguro's perfect minimalist style). Sometimes the reveal is startling ('The Remains of the Day', 'An Artist of the Floating World'), sometimes it's lunch-bag let-down ('Never Let Me Go', 'The Buried Giant' and, yes, 'A Pale View of Hills'). I'll keep reading Kazuo Ishiguro. One day he'll come up with the perfect plot again, and until then he will out-write just about anyone.
My mother was born and brought up in Nagasaki. My aunt and cousins suffered the atomic bomb on the 9th of August, 1945. Scenery of Nagasaki described in this novel seems to be different from those told by my mother and relatives. However, Mr. Ishiguro seems to succeed in expressing the social confusion in Japan just after the World War II and Japanese people's mind. In that sense, the title of this story might be recognized as "A Pale View of My Acquaintances in Nagasaki".
To me, this is the second book of Kazuo Ishiguro's, after I had read the first, "The remains of the Day". Or, this book could be the third, since I had watched his "Never Let Me Go" in a movie. Anyway, compared to the first, " A pale View of Hills" seems to be a little below than what I had expected. But this book is still good and enjoyable enough to read. The atmosphere and senses in this book feel as much like those in the first. Characters and landscapes are described both from a distance and in great detail. Kazuo Ishiguro is the true literary master, who draws a great picture in letters, instead of in paints. His novels have a strange mystery, which are not forgettable in readers minds even a very long time after the reading. Kazuo's readers can easily sense that other many common novels are far below than Kazuo's.
I love Kazuo Ishiguro and this book is the best one to start reading his work. Although many people complain that there is no real plot and parts of the action are left to the reader's imagination, this book has an amazing structure and the things that are left unsaid are part of the characters' implied trauma. The technique makes the novel more subtle and more interesting. An excellent book!
This is a great book. It's very hard to review books on or in general as different people have different tastes and styles of reading. I think it is a thoughtfully written book and the diction is so poetic. At the same time, it is so unsettling that I checked under my bed a couple of times and locked my room door while reading. It is a rare thing for me to have a book that makes me feel unsettled/creeped out while there is nothing overtly wrong happening. I am a fan.