5: 'Utmost delicacy.'
With his daughter's marriage negotiations at a delicate stage, Ono visits an old colleague, pleading for discretion about the past. Tim McInnerny continues this 1986 classic novel.
Tim McInnerny continues Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro's classic 1986 novel, set in post-WWII Japan.
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding after the horrors of the war, its people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist Masuji Ono fills his days in his garden with his two grown daughters and grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in the quiet lantern-lit bars of the old pleasure district. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past, a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.
Today: with Nokiro's marriage negotiations at a delicate stage, Ono visits an old colleague, imploring him for discretion about the past...
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
Reader: Tim McInnerny
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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