An Artist of the Floating World Summary
Kazuo Ishiguro

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An Artist of the Floating World Summary

An Artist of the Floating World is a novel by British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was published in 1986 and shortlisted the same year for the Booker Prize. The novel also won the Whitbread Book of the Year Award the year it came out.

Masuji Ono is a retired artist who has earned a high degree of prestige with his art. When negotiations over his daughter’s marriage falter though, he has...

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