A review by gardens_and_dragons
An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro

emotional reflective sad medium-paced
  • Plot- or character-driven? Character

4.0

This is an interesting book about an artist of war propaganda from Japan in WWII - he is dealing with rectifying his past as a fairly well known artist with his past with the war, and his present as a man that the average person blames for the war and American occupation. 

It’s slow and reflective, repetitive because of the narrators unreliable nature, but it’s for a reason. He presents his points of view as the utmost height of polite Japanese society, and cannot see how Japan is changing around him after the war. 
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