An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Material:Soft Cover I’ve spent the last eighteen

I’ve spent the last eighteen years of my life living and breathing dancing

and church—fugitives with nowhere to hide

As the body count rises and relationships strain

and Astrid must decide what success truly means

Vera Bitter raised her from behind a closed door—cold and uncaring from the moment she arrived at Bitter House

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Material:Soft Cover I’ve spent the last eighteenIn 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 worldthe nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drinkoffer him both escape and