A Pale View of Hills is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel follows a Japanese woman named Etsuko, who is living in Nagasaki about a decade after the end of World War Two. Etsuko befriends a windowed single mother named Sachiko. Together, they attempt to face the future in spite of the lingering effects of the destruction wrought upon Japan by the violence of World War Two. The novel explores themes of trauma, optimism, family, history, and repression.
"When I write a novel perhaps some part of me wants to offer in a book an experience that you can't get easily sitting in front of a cinema screen or a television screen," novelist Kazuo Ishiguro told...
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Kazuo Ishiguro's literary reputation was established by three novels published over seven years: A Pale View of Hills won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first nov...
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro
