‘A Pale View of Hills’ Review: The Supple Ambiguities of Kazuo Ishiguro’s Novel Stiffen and Seize Up in an Unsatisfying Adaptation

Kazuo Ishiguro’s 1982 debut novel “A Pale View of Hills” is an elegant, slippery examination of lives caught between identities both national and existential: Its tale-within-a-tale of two Japanese women living eerily overlapping lives in post-war Nagasaki, as related to the mixed-race daughter of one of them 30 years later, is rife with deliberate, subtly […]