Kazuo Ishiguro

In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past . . .A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.

Presents the author and Nobel Prize winner's lecture in literature, revealing his influences and what he thinks about the future of literature.

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 rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.

World War II is over and Japan sets about rebuilding her shattered cities. Masuji Ono, an aging painter, looks back over his life and assesses a career that coincided with the rise of Japanese militarism.

One of the most celebrated writers of our time, the first short story, Crooner, tells the story of a young musician in Venice who by chance meets a legendary singer, and helps him make music as a surprise for his wife. The author explores love, music and the passage of time in the story

As Japan rebuilds her cities after the calamity of World War II, the celebrated painter Masuji Ono should be enjoying a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism, a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

A primera vista, los jovencitos que estudian en el internado de Hailsham son como cualquier grupo de adolescentes. Practican deportes, tienen clases de arte y descubren el sexo, el amor y los juegos del poder. Hailsham es una mezcla de internado victoriano y de colegio para hijos de hippies de los años sesenta donde no dejan de repetirles que son muy especiales, que tienen una misión en el futuro, y se preocupan por su salud. Los jóvenes también saben que son estériles y que nunca tendrán hijos, de la misma manera que no tienen padres. Kathy, Ruth y Tommy fueron pupilos en Hailsham, y también fueron un juvenil triángulo amoroso. Y ahora, Kathy se permite recordar Hailsham y cómo ella y sus amigos descubrieron poco a poco la verdad. Y el lector de esta novela, utopía gótica, irá descubriendo con Kathy que Hailsham es una representación donde los jóvenes actores no saben que sólo son el secreto terrible de la buena salud de una sociedad.

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.

'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' Sunday TimesEngland, 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. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

A surrealistic novel on a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing what he is doing there, but everyone seems to know him. What is more, he must be important because people ask him for favors. As he goes from encounter to encounter, the man discovers himself.

"Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.""