KAZUO ISHIGURO (b. 1954) is a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer known for his lyrical tales of regret fused with subtle optimism.  The 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

Ishiguro initially gained literary notice when he contributed three short stories to the anthology "Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers" (1981).  His first novel, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS (1982), details the postwar memories of a Japanese woman trying to deal with the suicide of her daughter.  Set in an increasingly Westernized Japan following World War II, AN ARTIST OF THE FLOATING WORLD (1986) chronicles the life of elderly man who reviews his past career as a political artist of imperialist propaganda.  The Booker Prize-winning REMAINS OF THE DAY (1989) is a first-person narrative of an elderly English butler whose prim mask of formality has shut him off from understanding and intimacy.  With the publication of REMAINS, Ishiguro became one of the best-known European novelists at just 35 years of age.  His next novel, THE UNCONSOLED (1995) -- a radical stylistic departure from his early, conventional works -- focuses on lack of communication and absence of emotion as a concert pianist arrives in a European city to give a performance.

WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS (2000), an exercise in the crime-fiction genre set against the backdrop of the Sino-Japanese War in the 1930s, traces a British man’s search for his parents, who disappeared during his childhood.  In 2005 Ishiguro published NEVER LET ME GO, which through the story of three human clones warns of the ethical quandries raised by genetic engineering.  THE BURIED GIANT (2015) is an existential fantasy tale inflected by Arthurian legend.


The following books are in ePUB format unless otherwise indicated:

* Artist of the Floating World, An (Vintage, 2012)
* Buried Giant, The (Knopf, 2015)
* "Getting Poisoned" (Faber, 1981) -- PDF (see note below)
* Never Let Me Go (Knopf, 2005)
* Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (Knopf, 2009)
* Pale View of Hills, A (Vintage, 1990)
* Remains of the Day (Vintage, 2010)
* "Strange and Sometimes Sadness, A" (Faber, 1981) -- PDF (see note below)
* Unconsoled, The (Vintage, 1996)
* "Waiting for J" (Faber, 1981) -- PDF (see note below)
* When We Were Orphans (Knopf, 2000)

NOTE: The three short stories listed above are excerpted from Introduction 7: Stories by New Writers (Faber, 1981).

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