a book
The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro · 1988 · 535 pages
Ryder, a musician of international renown, is checking in to a hotel in a city somewhere in Central Europe. He has the distinct recollection he is due to perform in the Civic Concert Hall in a few days time, but as Gustav, the hotel porter, escorts him to his room, it occurs to him there is much more to this visit than he had at first anticipated…
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Martha Wainwright
“The Unconsoled is very visual, very cinematic. It’s about a piano player trying to get to a show and he can’t get there. It describes the physicality of what he has to do, so it has that musical sense. Ishiguro has a great way of making you feel where the characters are in the story. The book was really badly received, but I thought it was absolutely great.”↗