A Pale View Of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro's debut is the subtle and brief A Pale View Of Hills (1982). It is about a woman named Etsuko's memory of a summer in which she met a woman named Sachiko who had a young antisocial daughter who planned to move to America with a man to start a new life. This echoes the later life of Etsuko. So it is something like the retelling of her own story--there are many ellipses of time that make the story somewhat confusing. And it is these aspects that make it a somewhat haunting work as well-the things left unsaid in the story.