Nocturnes: five stories of music and nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro 221 pp.
A short collection of short stories with music as a central theme, some loosely connected, others more so. The stories include one about a has-been crooner and a Polish guitarist in Venice, an aficionado of classic American standards who travels to England and confronts his paranoias, the discussions of the crooner's wife and a saxophonist as they recuperate from cosmetic surgery, a guitarist who affects the lives of a pair of Swiss musicians on holiday, and a young classical musicians encounter with a mysterious older woman. Because they are short stories, they don't have the depth of Ishiguro's novels, but they are interesting and thought provoking.
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