7: 'I made many mistakes.'
At the marriage meeting, tensions are rising, and Ono suddenly makes an unexpected statement about his past. Tim McInnerny continues this award-wining 1986 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: at the marriage meeting between the two families, tensions are rising - Ono unexpectedly feels compelled to make a statement about his past...
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro
Reader: Tim McInnerny
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett
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