Ishiguro, Kazuo
Ishiguro, Kazuo ( 1954 – ),novelist. He was born in Nagasaki but came to England in 1960 and studied at the universities of Kent and East Anglia. His first novel, A Pale View of Hills ( 1982 ), about a Japanese widow living in England who is haunted by memories of her daughter's suicide, has been translated into over a dozen languages. An Artist of the Floating World ( 1986 ) is the story of an ageing Japanese artist who looks back on his life in the aftermath of the Second World War. He came to prominence with his 1989 novel The Remains of the Day, a subtle and moving story of an ageing butler's memories of his life in the service which won the Booker Prize and was made into a successful film. The Unconsoled ( 1995 ), a Kafkaesque novel about the sense of displacement of an international musician, is set in contemporary Europe. The same theme is pursued in When We Were Orphans (...
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