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In Nocturnes, a sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat 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 founder and youthful hopes recede.

Read by Adam Kotz, Neil Pearson, Julian Rhind-Tutt, Ian Porter, and Trevor White.

©2012 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2012 Faber & Faber Anthologies & Short Stories Fiction Genre Fiction Literary Fiction Romance Short Stories Heartfelt Witty
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I liked the thoughtful, non-dramatic stories about musicians and relationships. Listen for the subtlety.

Thoughtful musical stories

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Well written and beautifully read, but the stories didn’t seem to go anywhere. Everywhere you’d anticipate an interesting twist or revelation, nothing much occurs; I found myself at the end going ‘….and so?’
Pleasant listening as contemplative stories, but the meaning was a little lost on me… perhaps just a bit too high-brow for my mind!

Pleasant stories that don’t really go anywhere

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I enjoyed listening to these interludes in the lives of a few musicians at bedtime, and am presently at a loss for something as relaxing to follow on.

Something a little different!

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Interesting stories based around music.
Some humour, some pathos.
Enjoyed the narration.
Very different to the other books I have read by this author

Not what I expected but very enjoyable

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I was not quit sure why these were put together and had not noticed the link between two of the stories until I read about it in one of the reviews. I found the stories quite sad in some ways but were enjoyable.

Strange collection

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