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Perhaps one of the most celebrated writers of our own time offers us his first cycle of brief fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected reports in which music is a stunning and essential figure.
A once-popular performer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the main one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring tastes in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A attempting singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only found . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who enables himself believe that plastic surgery can help his career . . . A cellist whose teacher claims to “unwrap” his expertise . . .
Enthusiasm or requirement—or the often uneasy combination of the two—can determine the area of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music gives all of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their knowledge.
An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of days gone by, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary accuracy and subtlety, and with the arresting mental health and emotional depth that has designated most of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction.
