‘A Pale View of Hills’ Review: The Supple Ambiguities of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel Stiffen and Seize Up in an Unsatisfying Adaptation
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Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 debut novel “A Pale View of Hills” is an elegant, slippery examination of lives caught between identities both national and existential: Its tale-within-a-tale of two Japanese women living eerily overlapping lives in post-war Nagasaki, as related to the mixed-race daughter of one of them 30 years later, is rife with deliberate, subtly […]
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