Kazuo Ishiguro has just been named as the winner of this year’s Nobel Prize for Literature
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on November 8, 1954 and his family emigrated to the UK in 1960.
He is the author of a host of highly acclaimed works, including The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go.
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Never Let Me GoIn one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate… more…
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When We Were OrphansEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realises the time has come for him to return… more…
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The Unconsoled‘Almost certainly a masterpiece.’ Anita Brookner Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical – and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be – he comes steadily to realise he is facing the… more…
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The Remains of the Day‘After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?’ In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past… A contemporary classic, The… more…
An Artist of the Floating WorldIt is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War Two, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist, Masuji Ono, fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson; his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars…. more…
A Pale View of HillsIn this debut novel from acclaimed Booker Prize-winning Kazuo Ishiguro ( The Remains of the Day , Never Let Me Go ), post-war Japan serves as the haunting backdrop to a subtle story of memory, suicide, and psychological trauma. Etsuko lives alone in rural England, trying to come to terms with the recent suicide of her daughter, Keiko. A visit from… more…
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Nocturnes‘It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch…’ In a sublime short story collection, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the ‘hush-hush floor’ of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers… more…
The Buried GiantAn extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day ‘You’ve long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it’s time now to think on it anew. There’s a journey we must go on, and no more delay…’ The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain… more…
