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[email protected] www.japansociety.org.uk A company limited by guarantee. Registered in England No. 3371038 Registered Charity No. 1063952 VAT Registration No. 241 5505 89. Japan Society Book Club: An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Monday 8 January 2017 7.00pm The Japan Society 13 / 14 Cornwall Terrace London NW1 4QP Free for Japan Society Members – booking recommended The book club is held on the second Monday of every month An Artist of the Floating World is the second the Day. His work has been translated into novel by the 2017 Nobel Prize-winning more than 40 languages and adapted into author Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel is set in highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro’s other work Japan after the end of the Second World War includes A Pale View of the Hills, Never Let and is narrated by Masuji Ono, a respected Me Go, and The Buried Giant. artist who is now retired. Struggling through the rapidly changing environment of the The book club is held every month. There post-war society, the mature painter looks is no restriction on the nationality of the back on his life reflecting on his past actions authors read, but books should be available and artistic work in support of the imperialist in translation in both Japanese and English. movement that led Japan into the war.