New in paperback. Hardcover was published in 2020. Through a close reading of Ishiguro's first two novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982) and An Artist of the Floating World (1986), this book explains how Ishiguro has been able to create a "two-world literature" that addresses universal human concerns and avoids the pitfalls of the single, Western-centric perspective of "one-world vision."