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Kazuo Ishiguro

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Born
in Nagasaki, Japan
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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
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Average rating: 3.84 · 1,435,697 ratings · 127,849 reviews · 73 distinct worksSimilar authors
Never Let Me Go

3.84 avg rating — 634,123 ratings — published 2005 — 332 editions
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The Remains of the Day

4.14 avg rating — 277,045 ratings — published 1989 — 7 editions
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Klara and the Sun

3.76 avg rating — 278,599 ratings — published 2021 — 143 editions
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The Buried Giant

3.56 avg rating — 96,729 ratings — published 2015 — 155 editions
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When We Were Orphans

3.53 avg rating — 37,812 ratings — published 2000 — 157 editions
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An Artist of the Floating W...

3.78 avg rating — 33,860 ratings — published 1986 — 147 editions
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A Pale View of Hills

3.78 avg rating — 30,492 ratings — published 1982 — 65 editions
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of ...

3.50 avg rating — 25,487 ratings — published 2009 — 142 editions
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The Unconsoled

3.58 avg rating — 14,229 ratings — published 1995 — 125 editions
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Come Rain or Come Shine

3.66 avg rating — 2,339 ratings — published 2019 — 3 editions
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Quotes by Kazuo Ishiguro  (?)
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“There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.”
Kazuo Ishiguro

“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

“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

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February 2020 Revisit the Shelf Book

My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier 352 pages, published 1951
 
  68 votes, 22.7%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco 530 pages, published 1980
 
  59 votes, 19.7%

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro 258 pages, published 1989
 
  51 votes, 17.0%

Animal Farm by George Orwell 145 pages, published 1945
 
  50 votes, 16.7%

King Lear by William Shakespeare 316 pages, published 1606
 
  36 votes, 12.0%

The Hound of the Baskervilles by Arthur Conan Doyle 256 pages, published in 1902
 
  36 votes, 12.0%

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