By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day & Never Let Me Go Ryder a renowned pianist arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie & comical
- & always strangely malleable as a dream might be
- he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life Ishiguro's extraordinary & original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation vilification
- & the highest praise