6: 'Why don鈥檛 you simply face up to the past?'
With the marriage meeting with his prospective in-laws now imminent, Ono decides it's time to track down his old student Kuroda. Tim McInnerny continues this award-wining novel.
Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro's classic novel set in post-WWII Japan, read by Tim McInnerny.
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: it's now 1949, and with some of his old colleagues distancing themselves from him, and the meeting with his prospective in-laws now imminent, Ono decides it's time to talk to his former student Kuroda...
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
Reader: Tim McInnerny
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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- Mon 11 Aug 2025 22:45蜜芽传媒 Radio 4