Kazuo Ishiguro is a British author, screenwriter, and director, regarded as one of the most influential authors of our time. Born in Nagasaki, he moved with his family to the UK in 1960. He began writing his first (unpublished) novel in 1976, and in 1979 his short stories started being published in literary magazines. He devoted himself to writing full-time after the publication of his first novel, A Pale View of Hills (1982). He has received numerous prestigious awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, accompanied by the motivation “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world”.
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The Remains Of The Day
Stevens is an English butler who spent his life to the service of the recently deceased Lord Darlington. Encouraged to take a well-earned vacation, he decides to visit Miss Kenton, the former housekeeper at Darlington Hall. During the journey, he ponders about his former master, a Nazi sympathiser undeserving of his unflinching loyalty, his late father, and Miss Kenton herself, to whom he never admitted his true feelings. Stevens is left musing over missed opportunities, but a stranger encourages him to stop dwelling on the past and embrace “the remains of the day”.
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The Fortnight In September
By R. C. Sherriff
Recommended by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publish Date: 1931
‘The story was a simple one: a small suburban family on their annual fortnight’s holiday at Bognor. … It was a day-by-day account of their holiday from their last evening at home until the day they packed their bags for…
Crime And Punishment
By Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Recommended by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publish Date: 1866
Raskolnikov is a former student living in poverty, who, prompted by utilitarian morality and the belief that expectional individuals are not bound by the same moral code as everyone else, decides to commit a random murder. Despite the lack of…
Love In A Cold Climate
By Nancy Mitford
Recommended by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publish Date: 1949
This book is the sequel to The Pursuit of Love (1945). Groomed to be married in high society by her mother, Lady Leopoldina ‘Polly’ Hampton is expected to embark on a successful season as a debutante in London. However, she…
Mr Wilder And Me
By Jonathan Coe
Recommended by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Publish Date: 2020
Summer 1977. The young Calista leaves Athens and sets off on an adventure which will lead her to a Greek island that has been turned into a film set. Here, she will start working for famed Hollywood director Billy Wilder,…