{"product_id":"2940169237207","title":"Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall","description":"One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eA once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he's only just met . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to \"unwrap\" his talent . . .\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003ePassion or necessity-or the often uneasy combination of the two-determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eAn exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, \u003ci\u003eNocturnes \u003c\/i\u003ereveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro's acclaimed works of fiction.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFrom the Hardcover edition.\u003c\/i\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47150217756912,"sku":"2940169237207","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/2940169237207_p0.jpg?v=1763768898","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/2940169237207","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}