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    Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL is a British novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was...


The British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”. Here are some of his books:


The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the...

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

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'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' This is the extraordinary new novel from the...

An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting...

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of...

     
The English novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, known for his spare, elliptical prose style and his inventive subversion of literary genres, has been awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature.

The British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro has won the 2017 Nobel prize in literature, praised by the Swedish Academy for his “novels of great emotional force”. Here are some of his books:


The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

The Remains of the Day: Faber Modern Classics

Kazuo Ishiguro

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The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the...

The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro

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'There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' This is the extraordinary new novel from the...

An Artist of the Floating World

An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro

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It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting...

When We Were Orphans

When We Were Orphans

Kazuo Ishiguro

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England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the...

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of...

     
     
The Unconsoled
The Unconsoled
Kazuo Ishiguro | 1995 | Fiction & Poetry
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I absolutely loved reading this book. I am a great fan of Kazuo Ishiguro and this is the fourth book I have read by him. The concept of memory and the dream-like state of the book is fascinating and kept me enthralled throughout. My one warning about this book is the author describes it as an “anxiety dream” and I think this is definitely accurate. I spent the entire time stressed about the forgotten engagement and lack of control the main character had over his own story. But Ishiguro pulled it off so well!
  
When We Were Orphans
When We Were Orphans
Kazuo Ishiguro | 2013 | Essays
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The main character is irritating
The writing is flawless, as is expected from Kazuo Ishiguro, however there are a lot of random holes in the story. The main character Christopher is beyond irritating. His actions attempting to search for his parents during a war in the enemy frontlines was that of a typical Westerner acting selfish and putting his needs before those he deems less worthy. As a result I didn't have much sympathy at all for his situation. The ending seemed a bit haphazard, and like that of an old fashioned "it was me all along" narrative. Definitely disappointing.