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Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores the ideas of love, music, and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the ‘hush-hush floor’ of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate, and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life’s romance; even as one gets older, relationships flounder, and youthful hope recedes.