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Kazuo Ishiguro

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"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... Read more

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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... Read more

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Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews

226 words, approx. 1 pages

Critical Essay by Kirkus Reviews [A Pale View of Hills depicts the] present-day troubles and dark memories of Etsuko, a Nagasaki woman now living alone in England—in a strongly moody but ineffe... Read more

Critical Essay by James Campbell

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Critical Essay by James Campbell One of Kazuo Ishiguro's themes … is the conflict between the traditional and the modern worlds. [In A Pale View of Hills] it is set against the backgroun... Read more

Critical Essay by Paul Bailey

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Critical Essay by Paul Bailey Kazuo Ishiguro has written a first novel of uncommon delicacy. A Pale View of Hills is an extremely quiet study of extreme emotional turbulence, which summons up the vari... Read more

Critical Essay by Francis King

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Critical Essay by Francis King Although Mr Ishiguro has spent most of his life in England and has even acquired an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia, [A Pale View of Hills] is ty... Read more

Critical Essay by Edith Milton

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Critical Essay by Edith Milton ["A Pale View of Hills"] is narrated by a Japanese woman, Etsuko, who, like the author, was born in Nagasaki and lives in England. Widowed by the death of ... Read more

Critical Essay by Jonathan Spence

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Critical Essay by Jonathan Spence A Pale View of Hills has caught the loss and uncertainty of modern Japan…. (p. 266) [It] is a beautiful and dense novel, gliding from level to level of conscio... Read more

Critical Essay by Penelope Lively

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Critical Essay by Penelope Lively The impact of A Pale View of Hills … is out of all proportion to both its length and its slight plot. The narrator, Etsuko, resident in England, recalls her re... Read more

Critical Essay by Cynthia F. Wong

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In the following essay, Wong employs literary theorist Maurice Blanchot's theories on first person narration to analyze Ishiguro's A Pale View of Hills. "… the necessary co... Read more

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