3: 'No better than war criminals.'
As he reflects on his formidable influence on Art during the war, Ono is confused by the attitudes of Japan's younger generation. Tim McInnerny continues this classic 1986 novel.
Tim McInnerny reads 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: as he reflects on his formidable influence on Art during the war, Ono is confused by the attitudes of Japan's younger generation...
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
Reader: Tim McInnerny
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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