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An Artist of the Floating World

by Kazuo Ishiguro
David Case
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day
 
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
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Publisher: Books on Tape Edition: Unabridged
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  • ISBN: 9780385362580
  • File size: 184386 KB
  • Release date: August 14, 2012
  • Duration: 06:24:08

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  • ISBN: 9780385362580
  • File size: 184555 KB
  • Release date: August 14, 2012
  • Duration: 06:24:04
  • Number of parts: 5
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Lexile® Measure:1060
Text Difficulty:6-9

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day
 
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world"—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
Expand title description text
Fiction Literature Historical Fiction
  • Details

    Publisher:
    Books on Tape
    Edition:
    Unabridged

    Awards:

    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    ISBN: 9780385362580
    File size: 184386 KB
    Release date: August 14, 2012
    Duration: 06:24:08

    MP3 audiobook
    ISBN: 9780385362580
    File size: 184555 KB
    Release date: August 14, 2012
    Duration: 06:24:04
    Number of parts: 5

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  • Formats
    OverDrive Listen audiobook
    MP3 audiobook
  • Languages
    English
  • Levels
    Lexile® Measure: 1060
    Text Difficulty: 6-9
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