“It’s difficult to talk about A Pale View of Hills without feeling that I’m giving away the solution to a mystery, except I don’t know the solution myself. Although this book felt less compelling to me than The Remains of the Day, the story itself is haunting.

The protagonist of the story is the middle-aged Etsuko, a Japanese woman living in England. Within the first pages, we learn that Keiko, the older of her two daughters (who had a Japanese father), has died, and the...”

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