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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Born
in Nagasaki, Japan
Genre
Fiction, Science Fiction, Fantasy

Influences
Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Marcel Proust, ...more

Member Since
January 2021


Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.

His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Gia ...more

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Average rating: 3.84 · 2,034,862 ratings · 198,170 reviews · 85 distinct works • Similar authors
Never Let Me Go
3.85 avg rating — 882,691 ratings — published 2005 — 368 editions
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Klara and the Sun
3.74 avg rating — 449,832 ratings — published 2021 — 4 editions
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The Remains of the Day
4.14 avg rating — 371,955 ratings — published 1989 — 390 editions
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The Buried Giant
3.59 avg rating — 125,124 ratings — published 2015 — 64 editions
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An Artist of the Floating W...
3.78 avg rating — 47,266 ratings — published 1986 — 146 editions
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When We Were Orphans
3.54 avg rating — 48,689 ratings — published 2000 — 173 editions
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A Pale View of Hills
3.80 avg rating — 45,388 ratings — published 1982 — 147 editions
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of ...
3.51 avg rating — 33,394 ratings — published 2009 — 144 editions
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The Unconsoled
3.59 avg rating — 18,775 ratings — published 1995 — 118 editions
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Come Rain or Come Shine
3.64 avg rating — 3,906 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro
tags: inspirational, missed-chances
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“Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don’t go along with that. The memories I value most, I don’t ever see them fading.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
tags: memory
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“I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us. It's a shame, Kath, because we've loved each other all our lives. But in the end, we can't stay together forever.”
― Kazuo Ishiguro, Never Let Me Go
tags: never-let-me-go
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January 2017 New School Classic Poll

 
  47 votes, 19.3%

Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk - 218 pgs, 1996
 
  38 votes, 15.6%

 
  34 votes, 13.9%

The Jungle by Upton Sinclair - 412 pgs, 1905
 
  25 votes, 10.2%

Ross Poldark by Winston Graham - 400 pgs, 1945
 
  17 votes, 7.0%

Captain Blood by Rafael Sabatini, 236 pgs, 1922
 
  15 votes, 6.1%

 
  15 votes, 6.1%

Love Medicine by Louise Erdrich, 367 pgs, 1984
 
  12 votes, 4.9%

Winesburg, Ohio by Sherwood Anderson - 240 pgs, 1919
 
  10 votes, 4.1%

The Tartar Steppe by Dino Buzzati, 198 pgs, 1940
 
  8 votes, 3.3%

 
  7 votes, 2.9%

 
  6 votes, 2.5%

The Vagabond by Colette - 252 pgs, 1910
 
  6 votes, 2.5%

Fer-de-Lance by Rex Stout, 285 pgs, 1934
 
  4 votes, 1.6%

244 total votes
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