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1. • • This short novel is an easy and, at times, intriguing read, with Ishiguro sometimes making insightful points about Japanese culture and the effect of the passage of time on his characters. However, it seems that this subtle novel also asks too much from its reader.
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   • I'm sure some readers will love it, but beware if you aren't a fan of subtle. A Pale View of Hills reads like a dream, thus the conclusions drawn about the narrator and the events she describes are more ambiguous then those in Ishiguro’s other novels.

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   • (Book 274 from 1001 books) - A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo IshiguroA Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. During a visit from her daughter, Niki, Etsuko reflects on her own life as a young woman in Japan, and how she left that country to live in England.

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   • A Pale View of Hills thematically foreshadows much of the work Ishiguro will subsequently produce. His exploration of the deceptions and vagaries of memory, is a project begun in this novel and polished into a masterpiece in The Remains of the Day . But putting subsequent works to one side, this stands on its own as a very impressive debut novel.

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   • A Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. He received a £1000 advance from publishers Faber and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor.

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   • Ishiguro’s first novel is an intriguing read. If anything, it shows how much promise he had as an author and how much he could offer the literary world as he honed his skills.The Pale View of Hills is a very implicit book, and the conclusions I took from it may not even be conclusions at all.

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   • A Pale View of Hills reads like a dream, thus the conclusions drawn about the narrator and the events she describes are more ambiguous then those in Ishiguro’s other novels. Unlike other Ishiguro’s novels, we are not only left doubting the narrator’s interpretations of her memories, but doubting whether they are memories at all.

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   Jan 1, 2001 · 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.

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   Sep 24, 2018 · A Pale View of Hills [1982] - ★★1/2 <<This review may contain spoilers>> Kazuo Ishiguro’s debut novel is quite a puzzle. In the story, we first meet Etsuko, a middle-aged woman from Japan who is now residing in the English countryside, while her younger daughter Niki lives in London.

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   A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman living alone in England, and opens with discussion between Etsuko and her younger daughter, Niki, about the recent suicide of Etsuko's older daughter, Keiko.

   • Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

   • Publish Year: 1982

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   Jun 21, 2021 · “I could see far beyond the trees on the opposite bank of the river, a pale outline of hills visible against the clouds.” What Etsuko sees here, we later learn, are the hills of Inasa, “the hilly area of Nagasaki overlooking the harbour, renowned for its mountain scenery.”

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   Apr 16, 1982 · by Mark Z. Danielewski. The present-day troubles and dark memories of Etsuko, a Nagasaki woman now living alone in England—in a strongly moody but ineffectually structured first novel. Etsuko is now alone, divorced; one daughter, Keiko, has committed suicide; the other, Niki, English-born, lives unmarried with a man in London.

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    A Pale View of Hills. Fiction | Novel | Adult | Published in 1982. A modern alternative to SparkNotes and CliffsNotes, SuperSummary offers high-quality Study Guides with detailed chapter summaries and analysis of major themes, characters, and more. Download PDF.