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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. His novels explore memory, identity, and self-deception, often told through the lens of characters grappling with an uncertain past.
2 books·2 reviews
Books by Kazuo Ishiguro
Reviews of Kazuo's work
Science fiction
Never Let Me Go and What It Asks of Us
Never Let Me Go
Ishiguro writes a science fiction novel with the emotional register of a quiet afternoon — and that restraint is what makes the horror arrive so completely.
★★★★★9 min readBy Sofia Lund
Literary fiction
The Butler and the War He Chose Not to See
The Remains of the Day
Ishiguro has written a novel about what we sacrifice when we give ourselves entirely to a role — and whether we ever get that self back.
★★★★★6 min readBy James Okafor
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