PositiveThe Quarterly ConversationIshiguro has explained that its five stories — all of which feature music or musicians in prominent roles — were conceived as a single, multi-part work; what’s fascinating about that is that from story to story Ishiguro moves between his realist mode and his more subjective, even fantastic approach... As we’ve come to expect from Ishiguro, all five stories are first-person accounts, tightly constrained by the consciousness and perceptions of their narrators. Characters recur, and the narrative voice, even as its owner changes, retains a certain casual, colloquial, even awkward tone that will be familiar to readers of Never Let Me Go...he deftness with which Ishiguro moves from the world of ordinary human motivations to pathology and comic — yet troubling — absurdity is stunning, as is the resolution of the story, which is unexpectedly calm, kind, and even generous.
