An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Painted Collection Written and published first by

Written and published first by Antoine de St-Exupéry in 1943

the ageing butler of Darlington Hall

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a celebration of love

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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Painted Collection Written and published first byA Japanese artist looks back on his life in this celebrated and prize winning novel. 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, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern lit bars. His should be a