Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall by Kazuo Ishiguro

 This is going to be that Nobel laureate time.

This is a compilation of five stories around the music and nightfall. And I must say that these two fits into every story very well.

I was very keen on the music part of it and it was good to see that not all of them are musicians. Few of them were just music lovers but that doesn't falter the momentum of the narrative.

Second thing, it being about music I was looking for something around the cello. I don't know why but cello and piano sound more like music to me than guitar. Glad to find it in the last but the splendid story.

Music is something which is mostly conceptualise as an art form but that sounds like a narrow look from the listener. For a musician it might just be the way of life. Any kind of thought needs a reciprocation or at least a recognition. In case of music it is not required because music is something which can exist without any medium. It will sound abstract as long as the idea is limited only to the music that we listen to irrespective of the genre. Music is beyond existence which is impossible to convey by any material means.

I'll not go into each one of them but it was definitely a great read.

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