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pris_asagiri 's review for:
The Unconsoled
by Kazuo Ishiguro
This is my second Ishiguro that I’ve been overly disappointed by. I don’t know if it’s Ishiguro or the narrator, Simon Vance. Perhaps the combo isn’t great for me as I generally enjoy Ishiguro and I’ve had Vance narrate other books and thought him excellent. I don’t know when I originally started this book, but I think it was a year ago and it’s taken me multiple check outs from the library to finish. None of the characters I found interesting and the ending I found them all quite horrible. It felt like this was supposed to be making a statement on humans and relationships and misunderstandings leading to false assumptions but it ended with feeling like cognitive dissonance and rather than working to lessen the dissonance, everyone just rejected everything and everyone so that they could continue believing their beliefs. And in these times, it’s more a depressing statement on humanity than art.