An Artist of the Floating World, is a novel of Japan, set in the 1940’s after the war, by Kazuo Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. It is counted amongst Ishiguro’ four masterpieces including The Remains of The Day, Never Let Me Go and The Unconsoled. The novel was ranked at No. 94, in The Guardian’s list of top 100 novels of all time, compiled by the great literary critic, Robert McCrum, calling it: https://bit.ly/2W1IcHc