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A Pale View of Hills
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Author:
Ishiguro, Kazuo
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Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group 2012
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day
Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.
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09/05/2012
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Kazuo Ishiguro. (2012). A Pale View of Hills. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Kazuo Ishiguro. 2012. A Pale View of Hills. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.

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Kazuo Ishiguro. A Pale View of Hills. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2012.

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