For the first time in Russian is the debut novel of the famous literary seminar graduate Malcolm Bradbury, a Japanese-born man who won the Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day. Ishiguro's first book is already like a Zen Buddhist garden, in which neither flowery metaphors nor wild weeds are allowed to obscure the plot. Etsuko lives in the English province. After the suicide of her eldest daughter, she plunges into memories of her youth in post-war Nagasaki, her friendship with the impoverished aristocrat Sachiko and the strange, if not macabre, events that accompanied this friendship...