An Artist of the Floating World Audiobook Summary
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day
In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the “floating world”—the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink—offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
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An Artist of the Floating World Audiobook Narrator
David Case is the narrator of An Artist of the Floating World audiobook that was written by Kazuo Ishiguro
About the Author(s) of An Artist of the Floating World
Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of An Artist of the Floating World
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An Artist of the Floating World Full Details
Narrator | David Case |
Length | 2 hours 13 minutes |
Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
Category | |
Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
Release date | April 30, 2024 |
ISBN | 9780385362573 |
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The publisher of the An Artist of the Floating World is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Random House Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780385362573.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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