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  • The Unconsoled

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    Peter
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    Have you ever regretted reading a book — which one and why? I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled when it first came out. I’m not entirely sure why I picked it up, except that everyone seemed to be reading Ishiguro at the time. The Remains of the Day had appeared a few years earlier and…

  • Ordinary Life Is Strange Enough

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    Peter
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    What is a classic book that you think is overrated? I read Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Unconsoled in 1995 because, at the time, it seemed to be the book everyone was reading. It was described as a modern classic. It had literary ambition, critical attention, dream logic, and enough bafflement to make you wonder whether the…