Reading order
| # | Title | Published | Author | Buy on Amazon |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Nocturnes | 2009 | Kazuo Ishiguro | Buy |
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall was published in 2009 and is Kazuo Ishiguro’s only short story collection. The five stories are loosely connected through the theme of music and the ways it intersects with memory, ambition, and lost opportunities.
Set across Venice, London, and the Hollywood Hills, among other locations, the stories feature musicians and music enthusiasts at quiet crossroads in their lives. The collection shows a lighter, sometimes comic side of Ishiguro’s writing that differs from the restrained gravity of his novels.