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3.54 AVERAGE
3.54 AVERAGE
challenging
reflective
slow-paced
challenging
mysterious
reflective
sad
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
Diverse cast of characters:
No
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
mysterious
reflective
tense
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Plot
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Yes
Diverse cast of characters:
Yes
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
challenging
reflective
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
N/A
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
No
An extraordinary dissection of the human condition
challenging
mysterious
slow-paced
challenging
reflective
tense
medium-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
A mix
Strong character development:
Complicated
Loveable characters:
Complicated
Flaws of characters a main focus:
Yes
Kafka by way of Vanity Fair, Kazuo Ishiguro's The Unconsoled takes one of my favorite genres of storytelling, the 'devil comes to town' narrative in which a figure of mystery and malice turns a community's sins out into the open to spectacular destructive effect, into something much more muted and in its own way, more unsettling. The townspeople in The Unconsoled don't have moral failings to expose and explode, but instead a deep-seated malaise and vacuity that sets them adrift, pinging off of each other and our central pianist as he tries to navigate the town. I've never been particularly inclined to read a lot of Ishiguro, but I'm glad I started here (at what people say is his strangest novel.)
slow-paced
Plot or Character Driven:
Character
Strong character development:
No
Loveable characters:
No
mysterious
slow-paced
loved the ✨️atmosphere✨️, but man it took me a long time to get through