A Pale View of Hills is the highly acclaimed debut novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Nobel Prize winning author. This story unfolds the life of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, as she reflects on the tragic suicide of her daughter.

As Etsuko retreats into her past, she finds herself reliving a particular hot summer in Nagasaki, where she and her friends endeavored to rebuild their lives after the war. Amidst these memories, her recollections of a strange friendship with Sachiko—a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy—begin to take on a disturbing cast.

The novel intricately explores themes of memory, guilt, and the haunting shadows of the past, set against the backdrop of post-war Japan.