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An Artist of the Floating World Lesson Plan

Relationship to Other Books

Ishiguro is a prolific author; he has written novels, short stories, screenplays, and even lyrics. For more novels by Ishiguro, see: A Pale View of Hills (1982); The Remains of the Day (1989); The Unconsoled (1995); When We Were Orphans (2000); Never Let Me Go (2005); The Buried Giant (2015); and Klara and the Sun (2021).

For novels by Japanese authors set around post-war Japan, see: Dazai Osamu's The Setting Sun; Ibuse Masuji's Black Rain; Hayashi Fumiko's novels Late Chrysanthemums, Downtown, and Floating Clouds; Ōoka Shōhei's Fires on the Plain; and Yukio Mishima's The Sea of Fertility.

To learn more about post-war Japan, please consider: A cultural history of postwar Japan by...

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