Japan

ist mein nächstes literarisches Reiseziel. Nach dem hervorragenden Paul Auster beginne ich heute Nachmittag mit dem folgenden Buch.

Kazuo Ishiguro

An Artist of the Floating World

Synopsis: It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lanternlit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and carreer deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.