Talk:A Pale View of Hills

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Could this article be edited to be more objective? Also, granted the author left a lot of things unsaid, to be inferred by the reader, but where was it hinted that Jiro died "in a war"? What war?

Speculation?

Many of the facts stated in the summary here sound like things that were brought up in a discussion in an English class. None of the reasons why Keiko commited suicide were brought up in the book. In fact, there really was not much brought up in the book at all. I'm sure that what is written isn't wrong, but that is more insight on the part of a particular reader than part of the plot. Also, at the end of the summary it is stated that Etsuko projected her life through her making up Mariko and Sachiko. I did not find any evidence in the book, though I did not read very carefully. If I am correct and this is total speculation as well, this should be removed, or placed in a section in which such insight would be appropriate.

I just finished the novel (I love Ishiguro). I agree that much of what's written on this page is one reader's interpretation of the novel (valid or not) and is not a plot summary. There is much in this novel that's left to the reader's interpretation. Nonetheless, wikipedia does not exist to interpret novels. If I get a chance I may do a large rewrite of this page. Joshua Crowgey 01:01, 7 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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prize?

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The [[1]] Royal Society does not list a "Winnifred Holtby Prize". Is this award legitimate? -- Mikeblas (talk) 01:33, 19 December 2009 (UTC)[reply]

Yes, it exists but since discontinued. Christopher Connor (talk) 06:09, 27 June 2010 (UTC)[reply]

Article?

This article is really really thin, and failed to approach nearly anything Ishiguro says about the novel. I'm currently working on a psychoanalytic reading of this novel... Afterwards, I'll go through my sources and try to redo this page with some actual citations, and have it follow along more what Ishiguro claims the novel to be about. You would think people would do research before writing about a book... Especially one this complex. 129.114.209.31 (talk) 04:06, 22 April 2011 (UTC)[reply]

Nagasaki ?

Isn't it significant that the Japanese segments of the novel are set on the outskirts of Nagasaki shortly after the city's obliteration by an unmentioned nuclear bomb? --Clifford Mill (talk) 15:08, 20 October 2014 (UTC)[reply]

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I agree that the speculation offered on the page, that Sachiko-san is the narrator, should not be stated as fact. There are, I think, several possible realities at play in the book, all speculations (which Ishiguro clearly encourages) should be placed in their own section. Walker222 22:07, 5 December 2006 (UTC)[reply]

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