Kazuo Ishiguro
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter and musician who was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017; the Swedish Academy described him as a writer who has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world. He also holds the Booker Prize. He works in a narrow, deliberate register: a first-person narrator, reliable in tone and unreliable in judgement, explaining a life in the calmest available voice while the reader assembles what is being avoided. He began as a songwriter and still writes lyrics, which shows in how carefully he controls repetition.
TV (1)
Books (14)
- Klara and the Sun (2021)
- My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (2017)
- Nocturnes (2009)
- Never Let Me Go (2005)
- The Buried Giant (2001)
- When We Were Orphans (2000)
- The Remains of the Day (1994)
- The Unconsoled (1988)
- An Artist of the Floating World (1986)
- A Pale View of Hills (1982)
- Remains of the Day
- Nocturns
- No em deixis mai
- Quan érem orfes
Where to start with Kazuo Ishiguro
The Remains of the Day is the one to read first, a butler's motoring holiday narrated by a man with an extraordinary talent for missing his own life. Never Let Me Go is the most affecting and the one to hand a sceptic, provided nobody explains the premise first. An Artist of the Floating World is the underrated early novel, and Klara and the Sun the late return to the same questions from a machine's point of view.
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