The author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winner The Remains of the Day, Kazuo Ishiguro here presents a cycle of five beautifully crafted stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.
"Chopin is the composer most associated with the form [of the nocturne], bringing to it grace and beauty, fragility and poise, qualities conspicuous in this diverting collection of five stories by Kazuo Ishiguro.... Serious as Ishiguro's intentions surely are, in these well-tempered, witty and droll stories he is more playful than he has ever been."—Glasgow Herald
