![]() ![]() Ono also lost his wife in an air raid at the very end of the war. ![]() In particular, Ono was concerned with what he refers to as the “China crisis,” by which he seems to refer to the Sino-Japanese war of 1937-45-a war for which high officials in the Japanese government were convicted of numerous war crimes in post-war Tokyo trials, and a war in which Ono lost his son Kenji. ![]() That protagonist and narrator is an aging artist who, as a producer of propagandistic art for the extreme right-wing party in Japan in the 1930s, did much to empower and justify the politicians who led the country to defeat in the Second World War. In his first novel, A Pale View of Hills, Ishiguro had included a sub-plot in which a former teacher is forced late in life to rethink the values according to which he had lived his whole life, and the author has commented that this was the seed for his following book, in which he devotes the entire narrative to a former significant artist reevaluating his life’s choices. Ishiguro’s second novel is not as well known as his Booker-prize winning Remains of the Day, or his popular and acclaimed Never Let Me Go, but it is in An Artist of the Floating World that Ishiguro hits the stride that will eventually lead him to his 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. ![]()
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