A review by williamg
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro

5.0

This was my last Ishiguro I hadn’t read and it is a masterpiece. It’s funny while also being an anxious mess. Everything about this novel is absurd and incredibly executed. Ishiguro uses “dream logic” for the entirety of this anxiety dream of a novel. Seemingly nothing is happening, and Ryder is just ushered around everywhere, but thinking about this book as a whole, a lot happens, there are major side quests and subplots with actual linearity, which is shocking considering the atmosphere of this. And atmosphere, is something Ishiguro always builds so well, even in his works I haven’t enjoyed as much, the atmosphere is always very well created and present.