From the universally acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day comes a mesmerizing novel of completely unexpected mood and matter — a seamless, fictional universe, both wholly unrecognizable and familiar. When the public, day-to-day reality of a renowned pianist takes on a life of its own, he finds himself traversing landscapes that are by turns eerie, comical, and strangely malleable. (From Knopf Canada)

The Unconsoled won the Cheltenham Prize for Literature in 1995.