书名：The Unconsoled无可慰藉-石黑一雄2017诺贝尔文学奖得主

作者：Kazuo Ishiguro 

出版社名称：Faber & Faber 

出版时间：2013

语种：英语 

ISBN：9780571283897 

商品尺寸：12.6 x 3.2 x 19.8 cm

包装：平装

页数：544（以实物为准）

The Unconsoled《无可慰藉》是石黑一雄的第四部小说，获得切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，布克奖提名。本书秉承石黒一雄的一贯风格，外表清淡，内心强大。卡夫卡式的叙事，大量的超现实描写，变幻莫测的场景，走马观花般的人物，使读者仿佛置身于主人公的梦境之中。

故事表面上讲的是一个小城的一群人的人生百态，透过纸页，却看到了作者对当代人的生存状态的深刻思考。如同小说中的瑞德及其他所有人一样，行走在当代社会，人们的心灵全都带着自己的伤口，被困在各自形形色色的大泡泡中，无法与人沟通，也无法从外界获得帮助与慰藉。

A masterpiece. It is above all a book devoted to the human heart. ― The Times

[Ishiguro] is an original and remarkable genius. The Unconsoled is the most original and remarkable book he has so far produced. ― New York Times Book Review

A work of great interest and originality. Ishiguro has mapped out an aesthetic territory that is all his own. frankly fantastic [and] fiercer and funnier than before. ― New Yorker

One of the strangest books in memory. ― Times Literary Supplement

小说描写一位钢琴演奏家在一座谜样的城市里所经历的谜样的几天。他忽而是旁观者，忽而又被卷入其中，所见之人无不一往情深却又执迷不悟；所遇之事无不怪异荒诞，充满变数。在这座人心为怪诞的艺术价值观所左右的城市里，在努力寻找梦境出口，为这一切寻求解释的过程中，他渐渐意识到自己正面临人生严酷的一场演奏。

The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. InThe Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.

石黑一雄（Kazuo Ishiguro），日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎。1989年获得“布克奖”，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称“英国文坛移民三雄”。被英国皇室授勋为文学骑士，并获授法国艺术文学骑士勋章。

2017年，石黑一雄获得诺贝尔文学奖。瑞典学院给出的获奖理由为“石黑一雄的小说，以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界联系的幻觉之下的深渊。”

石黑一雄文体以细腻优美著称，几乎每部小说都被提名或得奖，其作品已被翻译成二十八种语言。

虽然拥有日本和英国双重的文化背景，但石黑一雄却是极为少数的、不专以移民或是国族认同作为小说题材的亚裔作家之一。他致力于写出一本对于生活在任何一个文化背景之下的人们，都能够产生意义的小说。于是，石黑一雄的每一本小说几乎都在开创一个新的格局，横跨了欧洲的贵族文化、现代中国、日本，乃至于1990年代晚期的英国生物科技实验，而屡屡给读者带来耳目一新的惊喜。

Kazuo Ishiguro is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. BothThe Remains of the Day andNever Let Me Go have sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro’s other work includesThe Buried Giant,Nocturnes,A Pale View of the Hills, andAn Artist of the Floating World.