An Artist of the Floating World(1986)

Kazuo Ishiguro

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars.