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But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

This continues to a dreamy story. When you see a dream, every extraordinary thing seems so normal, yet you feel uneasy about all that after you woke up.

I was recently listening to a podcast about Ishiguro’s works and someone described the Unconsoled as a dream where you are late for an exam and you enter the room without knowing the subject and you are naked. I am more and more convinced how infused Ishiguro’s works are, especially sequential ones, and I can say the exact same thing about this one.

Unreliable, so unreliable…

I am halfway through this book, trying to remember the similarities between this and the Unconsoled. Ishiguro has a way of merging his novels, and the most characteristic for those two that comes to mind is “delusional importance of characters”.