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A Pale View of Hills

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Mar 1982
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General Fiction General Fiction
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day

Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.

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Sep 1990 Vintage ISBN 067972267X
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First Edition Mar 1982 Putnam ISBN 0399127186
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