PositiveThe Open Letters MonthlyIshiguro has cornered the market on the befuddled character, and in his new short story collection Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, he has not abandoned his faithful flock of readers with a soft spot for the clueless and confused ... Nocturnes is five short stories linked by music, humor, and the recurrence of a few characters, some more confused than others ...the main characters in Nocturnes are predominantly musicians and music aficionados; it is their love of this art that drives these stories in unique ways ... Nocturnes’ reads like a good blues song with humorous uppity riffs to keep everything balanced and politely in perspective.
