and events Mariko – Sachiko's daughter, and, possibly, a representation of Etsuko's daughter, Keiko Jiro – Etsuko's first husband Ogata-san – Jiro's father Frank – man that Sachiko was going to America with Mrs. Fujiwara – the owner of noodle shop who gave Sachiko a job Hanada – Jiro's friend who threatened his wife with a golf club Shigeo Matsuda – a student in Ogata-san's class Reception The novel was generally well received by critics, many praising the novel's mysterious tone. The New York Review of Books called it "eery and tenebrous. It is a ghost story but the narrator does not realise that." The New York Times said the novel was "infinitely ... mysterious", and the inconsistent tone of the narrator, with the graphic imagery in the book combined to create "the absolute emblem of our genius of destruction". References Further reading Faber and Faber, Faber Book Club: A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro. Retrieved 27 June 2010. External links Kazuo Ishiguro discusses A Pale View of Hills with Malcolm Bradbury - a British Library sound recording 1982 British novels Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro Novels set in Japan Faber and Faber books Fiction with unreliable narrators 1982 debut novels Japan in non-Japanese culture