Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2009 CE · Short Story · English · Contemporary

Five linked stories about musicians, including a crooner who serenades a wife in Venice and a saxophonist whose face is hidden in bandages after surgery. Ambition, failure and a faded marriage run through each. Ishiguro's only book of short fiction; the subtitle is kept here to separate it from Senghor's Nocturnes.

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