Status Updates From When We Were Orphans

But for those like us, our fate is to face the world as orphans, chasing through long years the shadows of vanished parents. There is nothing for it but to try and see through our missions to the end, as best we can, for until we do so, we will be permitted no calm.

This continues to a dreamy story. When you see a dream, every extraordinary thing seems so normal, yet you feel uneasy about all that after you woke up.

This book is like a déjà-vue for The Unconsoled. It’s as if Ishiguro has these ideas for a book but after finishing it, he hadn’t have enough expression of his ideas, so he continues in the next book.