{"product_id":"unconsoled","title":"Unconsoled","description":"The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.\u003cbr\u003e\"A work of great interest and originality.... Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own...frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before\".-- \"The New Yorker\"","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":41875194708043,"sku":"9780679735878","price":19.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0635\/5645\/2427\/files\/imageloader_26109fbd-433a-4d6d-b92d-1ee47f1db546.jpg?v=1762334152","url":"https:\/\/xiabooks.org\/products\/unconsoled","provider":"XIA Books \u0026 Café","version":"1.0","type":"link"}