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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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Never Let Me Go

3.85 avg rating — 878,703 ratings — published 2005 — 366 editions
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Klara and the Sun

3.74 avg rating — 447,551 ratings — published 2021 — 162 editions
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The Remains of the Day

4.14 avg rating — 370,250 ratings — published 1989 — 390 editions
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The Buried Giant

3.59 avg rating — 124,729 ratings — published 2015
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An Artist of the Floating W...

3.78 avg rating — 47,076 ratings — published 1986 — 158 editions
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When We Were Orphans

3.54 avg rating — 48,550 ratings — published 2000 — 173 editions
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A Pale View of Hills

3.80 avg rating — 45,126 ratings — published 1982 — 147 editions
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of ...

3.51 avg rating — 33,302 ratings — published 2009 — 144 editions
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The Unconsoled

3.59 avg rating — 18,704 ratings — published 1995 — 134 editions
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Come Rain or Come Shine

3.64 avg rating — 3,885 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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November 2021 Revisit the Shelf Poll

The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro pub. 1989, 258 pp., last read Sept 2018
 
  45 votes, 22.1%

Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne pub1873, 252 pages, Group read Dec 2013
 
  36 votes, 17.6%

Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville pub. 1851, 654 pages, last read as a long-read April-June 2017
 
  26 votes, 12.7%

A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin pub. 1968, 183 pp., last read 2018
 
  26 votes, 12.7%

The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (pub. 1980 pp. 536, last read June 2016)
 
  25 votes, 12.3%

The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous pub BCE 1800, 120 pp. last read July 2019
 
  23 votes, 11.3%

Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers pub. 1934, 209 pages, last read Oct 2015
 
  23 votes, 11.3%

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