This is my second Ishiguro (the first one being The Remains of the Day), and I am beginning to find some overlapping themes and motifs. Much like The Remains of the Day, the writing in An Artist of the Floating World is solid, to put it lightly. Ishiguro has a way with words. His way is subtle. Bit by bit, we find the picture completed, and out emerges the complete story. In both novels, the main character is an older man who can't help but reminiscing. The narrator is unreli

Wow. This is it. This is the book. Or close enough, anyway. Sheer genius, whatever it is. Paradigm-changer and definitely one of the best books I've ever read. The novel revolves around Catch-22, a catchphrase many of us have grown familiar with, even if we don't know where it originated. And what is Catch-22? As I understand it, it's a painfully logical and inescapable truth of life. 'Catch-22 means they are allowed to do whatever we can't stop them from doing'. Beautiful an