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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
By Kazuo Ishiguro
240 pages; Knopf
At heart, Ishiguro's battery of talents are applied in Nocturnes to one goal—the scrubbing away of false romance, of clichéd resolutions, in life and in his writing. The result is a pitch-perfect riff on the sheer quirkiness of reality...Read more
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240 pages; Knopf
At heart, Ishiguro's battery of talents are applied in Nocturnes to one goal—the scrubbing away of false romance, of clichéd resolutions, in life and in his writing. The result is a pitch-perfect riff on the sheer quirkiness of reality...Read more
Next: What to read next: O's 2010 summer reading list, plus hundreds more irresistible finds
From the July 2010 issue of O, The Oprah Magazine