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A Pale View of Hills
First edition cover
AuthorKazuo Ishiguro
CountryEngland
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherFaber and Faber
Publication date
February 1982
Media typePrint (Hardback & Paperback)
Pages192 pp (hardback first edition)
ISBN0-571-11866-6 (hardback first edition)
OCLC8303689
Followed byAn Artist of the Floating World 

A Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. He received a £1000 advance from publishers Faber and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor.[1]

A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman living alone in England, and opens with discussion between Etsuko and her younger daughter, Niki, about the recent suicide of Etsuko's older daughter, Keiko.

  1. ^ Nicholas Wroe (19 February 2005). "Living memories". The Guardian. Archived from the original on 25 May 2010. Retrieved 27 June 2010.

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