ABOUT
THE BOOK

The Unconsoled is Kazuo Ishiguro’s lengthy, surreal, dreamlike novel about a renowned pianist, Ryder, who arrives in an unnamed Central European city for a crucial concert but becomes trapped in a bewildering, anxiety-inducing quest of endless, nonsensical requests and bizarre encounters, mirroring a collective search for meaning, identity, and resolution that never quite arrives, challenging readers with its unsettling atmosphere and ambiguous reality, often compared to Kafka or Beckett.