The Unconsoled

The Unconsoled

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize€“winning novel <i>The Remains of the Day</i>, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. <br><br>The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In <i>The Unconsoled</i> Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.