A Pale View of Hills vs Memoranda during the war: Which Should You Read?

A Pale View of Hills Kazuo Ishiguro · 1982 ★★★★☆ 3.8 200 pages · ≈ 3 h 42 m · Moderate

In his highly acclaimed debut, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she…

Memoranda during the war Walt Whitman · 1876 ★★★★☆ 3.8 68 pages · ≈ 1 h 16 m · Demanding

“DURING the Union War I commenced at the close of 1862, and continued steadily through '63, '64, and '65, to visit the sick and wounded of the Army, both on the field and in the Hospitals in and around Washington city.”

"In December of 1862, having read his brother's name in a casualty list, Walt Whitman rushed from Brooklyn to the war front, where he found his brother wounded but recovering. But Whitman also found there a "new world,"…