Best Kazuo Ishiguro Books | Best Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Kazuo Ishiguro Books | Best Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro
Best Kazuo Ishiguro Books: Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and currently lives in London, England. Every of his unostentatious, finely shaped novels has been revealed to international acclaim. He was in each of Granta’s better of Young British Novelists anthologies, and won the booker Prize at 34 for Remains of the Day.
The news that Kazuo Ishiguro was the winner of this year’s Nobel prize for Literature was a surprise and a delight. A surprise as a result of I hadn’t detected his name mentioned as a contender—and as a result of I’m wont to Nobel winners being unfamiliar with to me. A delight as a result of he’s such a fabulous author who deserves all the accolades.
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The Remains of the Day: Booker Prize Winner 1989
The Remains Of The Day: Booker Prize Winner 1989 is a love story told from the first person perspective of Stevens, a butler. Stevens recalls the course of his life in the form of diary entries while the actions of the present progress in the book.
Never Let Me Go
In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.
Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Best Kazuo Ishiguro Books: In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores the ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the ‘hush-hush floor’ of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to café musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning.
The Buried Giant
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased.
A Pale View of Hills
In his highly acclaimed debut, 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 finds herself reliving one particular hot summer night in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war.
An Artist of the Floating World
Best Kazuo Ishiguro Books: It is 1948, Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern lit bars.
The Unconsoled
A haunting and utterly original novel in which a famous pianist confronts unresolved emotional aspects of his life. Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give.
When We Were Orphans
A novel of memory and loss, set between London of the 1930s and Shanghai between the wars. England 1930s, Christopher Banks has become the country’s most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society.
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs
Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.
The Handmaid’s Tale (Contemporary Classics)
Offred is a Handmaid in The Republic of Gilead, a religious totalitarian state in what was formerly known the United States. She is placed in the household of The Commander, Fred Waterford – her assigned name, Offred, means ‘of Fred’.
