An Artist of the Floating World
British and Japanese novelist, born 1954. Won the Costa Novel Award in 1986 and the Booker Prize in 1989.
An Artist of the Floating World is a 1986 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It won the Costa Novel Award in 1986.
On 4 of the 19 lists it was eligible for.
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At a glance
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 1986
- Length
- 208 pages (UK paperback)
- Awards
- Booker Prize shortlist, 1986
- Costa Novel Award winner, 1986
- Genre
- Literary fiction, War and conflict, Psychological
Is An Artist of the Floating World worth reading?
4 of the 19 best-of lists it could have made include it, among them the Costa Novel Award and the Booker Prize.
| List | Place | Original |
|---|---|---|
| Booker Prize (winners and shortlists) (Booker Prize Foundation, 1986) | Shortlist | See the list |
| Costa (Whitbread) Novel Award (winners and shortlists) (Costa, 1986) | Winner | See the list |
| The 100 best novels written in English (The Guardian / Observer, 2015) | Listed | See the list |
| The 100 greatest novels of all time (The Observer, 2003) | Listed | See the list |
Best edition of An Artist of the Floating World
The edition we link to is the Faber & Faber paperback (2013), 208 pages.
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber (paperback, 2013)
- Pages
- 208
- ISBN
- 9780571283873
How critics, prizes and readers rate An Artist of the Floating World
Prize juries rate it most highly: it earned 83% of the points available on prize lists, against 13% on critics' lists and 0% on readers' and booksellers' lists.
Share of the available points it earned on each kind of list it was eligible for. How the scores work
Books like An Artist of the Floating World
If you liked An Artist of the Floating World, try Never Let Me Go, The Remains of the Day or Klara and the Sun.
