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Nocturnes five stories of music and nightfall

Five interconnected stories in which music is an intrinsic theme follow the struggles of a once-popular singer desperate for a comeback, a songwriter who is unwittingly involved in a failing marriage, and a jazz musician who wrongly believes that plastic surgery will secure his career.

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  • "Five interconnected stories in which music is an intrinsic theme follow the struggles of a once-popular singer desperate for a comeback, a songwriter who is unwittingly involved in a failing marriage, and a jazz musician who wrongly believes that plastic surgery will secure his career."@en
  • "One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character."@en
  • "One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character."
  • "This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, caf ̌musicians and faded stars, all at some moment of reckoning."
  • ""In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, Nocturnes is underscored by a haunting theme: the struggle to restoke life's romance, even as relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede."--Jacket."@en
  • ""In this sublime story cycle, Kazuo Ishiguro explores love, music and the passage of time. This quintet ranges from Italian piazzas to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel. Along the way we meet young dreamers, café musicians and faded stars, all at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, Nocturnes is underscored by a haunting theme: the struggle to restoke life's romance, even as relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede."--Jacket."

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  • "Fiction"@en
  • "Fiction"
  • "Electronic books"@en
  • "Ausgabe"
  • "Nouvelles anglaises"
  • "Bestseller 2009 (Englisch)"
  • "Short stories"@en
  • "Short stories"

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  • "Shabānah'hā : panj dāstān-i musīqī va shab"
  • "Nocturnes five stories of music and nightfall"@en
  • "Nocturnes five stories of music and nightfall"
  • "Ye qu / Nocturnes : five stories of music and nightfall / Kazuo Ishiguro"
  • "夜曲 / Nocturnes : five stories of music and nightfall / Kazuo Ishiguro"
  • "Nocturnes : vijf verhalen over muziek en het vallen van de avond"
  • "Nokti︠u︡rny : pi︠a︡tʹ istoriĭ o muzyke i sumerkakh"
  • "Nocturnes : Five Stories of Music and Nightfall"
  • "Ноктюрны : пять историй о музыке и сумерках"
  • "Nocturnes : five stories of music and nightfall"@en
  • "Nocturnes : five stories of music and nightfall"

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