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DEATH // SENTENCE

The Kazuo Ishiguro Oeuvre 1 of 8 - A Pale View of Hills

Aug 25, 2020
59:46
A solo episode! Langdon launches a new sub-series working through analysis of all of Kazuo Ishiguro's body of work in chronological order. This time it's his debut, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (1982), a novel exploring a Japanese woman's grief after losing her eldest daughter to suicide following a move to Britain and the confounding non-response of her youngest daughter who doesn't mourn her sister at all. FEATURED MUSIC: Unleash the Archers - "Legacy"

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