Kazuo Ishiguro
Goodreads Author
Born
in Nagasaki, Japan
Genre
Influences
Member Since
January 2021
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Never Let Me Go
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published
2005
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366 editions
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Klara and the Sun
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published
2021
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162 editions
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The Remains of the Day
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published
1989
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390 editions
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The Buried Giant
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published
2015
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An Artist of the Floating World
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published
1986
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158 editions
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When We Were Orphans
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published
2000
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173 editions
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A Pale View of Hills
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published
1982
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147 editions
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
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published
2009
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144 editions
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The Unconsoled
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published
1995
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134 editions
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Come Rain or Come Shine
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published
2019
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3 editions
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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.”
― Never Let Me Go
― 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.”
― Never Let Me Go
― Never Let Me Go
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The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro pub. 1989, 258 pp., last read Sept 2018
Around the World in Eighty Days by Jules Verne pub1873, 252 pages, Group read Dec 2013
Moby-Dick or, the Whale by Herman Melville pub. 1851, 654 pages, last read as a long-read April-June 2017
A Wizard of Earthsea by Ursula K. Le Guin pub. 1968, 183 pp., last read 2018
The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (pub. 1980 pp. 536, last read June 2016)
The Epic of Gilgamesh by Anonymous pub BCE 1800, 120 pp. last read July 2019
Mary Poppins by P.L. Travers pub. 1934, 209 pages, last read Oct 2015
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