Kazuo Ishiguro is een Nobelprijswinnaar wiens romans met grote emotionele kracht de afgrond onder ons illusoire gevoel van verbondenheid met de wereld blootleggen. Zijn werken duiken vaak in thema's als herinnering, tijd en menselijke existentie, waarbij de onuitgesproken en vergeten aspecten van de menselijke ervaring worden onderzocht. Ishiguro gebruikt een subtiele, melancholische stijl om sfeervolle verhalen te creëren die een blijvende indruk achterlaten bij de lezers.
Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics. The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's best-loved Booker Prize-winning novel.
An elderly butler on holiday in the West Country in the 1950's reflects on his life and work at Darlington Hall, his former employer and his friendships. By the author of the Whitbread book of the year for 1986 An artist of the floating world.
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.
Das Leben im Internat Hailsham scheint unauffällig: Freundschaften werden geschlossen, Konflikte ausgetragen, Beziehungen beginnen, kurz: die Internatsschüler durchleben eine normale Jugend. Doch dann gibt es da auch noch die anderen Aspekte des Lebens an diesem Ort. Mysteriöse Einrichtungen wie der jährliche Basar, einer der wenigen Zeitpunkte, an dem die Kinder Kontakt zur Außenwelt haben, oder unklare Andeutungen über die besondere Bestimmung eines jeden einzelnen Schülers dieses Internats - die Idylle scheint nicht das zu sein, was sie verspricht. Viele Jahre nach ihrem Austritt aus Hailsham erinnert sich die ehemalige Schülerin Kathy an ihre Zeit dort und beginnt für sich und den Leser langsam das dunkle Geheimnis zu entüllen, das diesen Ort umgibt. Abiturempfehlung zu den Themenbereichen Genetic engineering and medical ethics und Growing up
But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.If you enjoyed An Artist of the Floating World, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.
A Pale View of Hills is 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. Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel is a delicate, elliptical work balanced gracefully between irony and elegy.
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.
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 and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.
In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.
