An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Material:Soft Cover I fell as hard as

I fell as hard as a woman like me can fall

exploring the burden of familial expectations

a handsome husband

a sacrifice

An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro Material:Soft Cover I fell as hard asIn the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the floating worldthe nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drinkoffer him both escape and