Los Inconsolables - Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Unconsoled is a Novel by Kazuo Ishiguro First Published in 1995 by Faber And Faber And Winner of The Cheltenham Prize That Year. The Novel Takes Place Over a Period of Three Days. It is About Ryder a Famous Pianist Who Arrives in a Central European City to Perform a Concert. He is Entangled in a Web of Appointments And Promises Which he Cannot Seem to Remember Struggling to Fulfill His Commitments Before Thursday Nights Performance And Frustrated With His Inability to Take Control. The Unconsoled Was Described as a sprawling Almost Indecipherable 500-Page Work That Left Readers And Reviewers Baffled. It Received Strong Negative Reviews With a Few Positive Ones. Literary Critic James Wood Said That The Novel Had Invented Its Own Category of Badness. However a 2006 Poll of Various Literary Critics Voted The Novel as The Third Best British Irish or Commonwealth Novel From 1980 to 2005 Tied With Anthony Burgesss Earthly Powers Salman Rushdies Midnights Children Ian Mcewans Atonement And Penelope Fitzgeralds The Blue Flower. John Carey Book Critic For The Sunday Times Also Placed The Novel on His List of The 20th Centurys 50 Most Enjoyable Books. It Has Come to be Generally Regarded as One of Ishiguros Best Works.--Wikipedia Accessed 11 February 2022.