Kazuo Ishiguro

Quel che resta del giorno è il terzo romanzo dello scrittore britannico Kazuo Ishiguro, che vinse il premio Booker nello stesso anno. Il romanzo è scritto sotto forma di diario. L'io narrante è Mr. Stevens, un maggiordomo inglese, che per la gran parte della sua carriera ha lavorato a Darlington Hall, prima al …

Non lasciarmi è un romanzo ucronico dello scrittore britannico di origini giapponesi Kazuo Ishiguro. La storia è ambientata in un presente alternativo distopico ed è raccontata sotto forma di flashback dalla protagonista del libro, Kathy. Il titolo si riferisce ad una immaginaria canzone Never Let Me Go di …

Un artista del mondo fluttuante, tradotto in italiano anche con il titolo Un artista del mondo effimero, è un romanzo di Kazuo Ishiguro del 1986. Ambientato in Giappone dopo la seconda guerra mondiale, il libro è narrato da Masuji Ono, un anziano pittore che riflette sulla sua vita e su come l'ha vissuta. Si accorge …

When We Were Orphans is the fifth novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2000. It is loosely categorised as a detective novel. When We Were Orphans was shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize, though it is considered one of Ishiguro's weakest works, with Ishiguro himself saying "It's not …

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 finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to …

Arriving in a European city with significant gaps in his memory, Ryder, a renowned pianist, is overwhelmed by an onslaught of strangers who seem to know him and of whom he experiences vague, dreamlike recollections. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.Title: The Unconsoled Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo Publisher: Random House …

Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall is a 2009 collection of short fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro. After six novels, it is Ishiguro first collection of short stories, though described by the publisher as a "story cycle". As the subtitle suggests, each of the five stories focuses on music and musicians, and the …

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara …

The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.