A Pale View of Hills
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| Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
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| Language | English |
| Genre | Novel |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | February 1982 |
| Publication place | England |
| Media type | Print (Hardback & Paperback) |
| Pages | 192 pp (hardback first edition) |
| ISBN | 0-571-11866-6 (hardback first edition) |
| OCLC | 8303689 |
A Pale View of Hills (1982) is the first novel by Nobel Prize–winning author Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. He received a £1000 advance from publishers Faber and Faber for the novel after a meeting with Robert McCrum, the fiction editor.
A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman living alone in England, and opens with discussion between Etsuko and her younger daughter, Niki, about the recent suicide of Etsuko's older daughter, Keiko. A film adaptation of the novel was made in 2025.