A pale view of the hills

Description:

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. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.

subjects: Suicide victims,  Women,  Female friendship,  Mothers and daughters,  History,  Japanese,  Fiction,  Psychology,  Family relationships,  Literature,  Japan,  World War, 1939-1945,  Fiction, psychological,  Mothers and daughters, fiction,  Japan, fiction,  Japanese Psychological fiction,  Large type books,  Fiction, general,  Japanese, fiction,  England, fiction,  Japanese fiction

Places: Japan,  England,  Nagasaki-shi (Japan),  Nagasaki-shi

Times: Bombardment, 1945