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Kathy, Tommy och Ruth växte upp på ett isolerat internat på den engelska landsbygden. De fostrades till att tro att de var speciella och att deras hälsa var viktig, inte bara för dem själva utan även för samhället. Men varför var de egentligen där? När Kathy i 30-årsåldern tänker tillbaka på sin uppväxt börjar hon minnas saker. Hon minns hur folk som sökte sig utanför internatets grindar inte kom tillbaka och hur människor som kom utifrån verkade vara livrädda för dem. När minnesbilderna fogas samman går sanningen så sakteliga upp för Kathy.
Never let me go är en skildring av tre barns gemensamma uppväxt, men också en skönlitterär kommentar till en vår tids stora etiska frågor: genetik och kloning.
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"Det är inget mindre än storslaget." SvD
Från sin plats i butiken som säljer artificiella vänner observerar Klara – en artificiell vän med enastående iakttagelseförmåga – noggrant beteendet hos dem som kommer in för att handla. Hon hyser gott hopp om att en kund snart ska välja just henne. Men när möjligheten till ett helt nytt liv väl dyker upp varnas Klara för att inte lita för mycket på löften från människor.
I denna glimrande roman skildrar Kazuo Ishiguro vår snabbt föränderliga värld genom en oförglömlig berättares ögon och utforskar en grundläggande fråga: Vad betyder det att älska?
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SOON TO BE A MAJOR FILM STARRING JENNA ORTEGA AND AMY ADAMS*The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller**Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021**A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick*'A delicate, haunting story' The Washington Post'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.' The Times'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.In Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?Kazuo Ishiguro's book Klara and the Sun was a #1 Sunday Times Bestseller w/c 06-03-2021
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Romanen om mönsterbutlern Stevens som ger sig iväg i sin husbondes bil på sitt livs första semester har blivit en modern klassiker. Författaren låter med ojämförlig mästerlighet den korrekte butlern ta läsaren med på en resa genom den engelska landsbygden 1956. Och genom sina egna minnen. Återstoden av dagen är en sorglig och humoristisk betraktelse över den vanliga människans demokratiska ansvar och en skarpsinnig och ironisk berättelse om missriktad idealism.
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WINNER OF THE BOOKER PRIZEA contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House. In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside and into his past. 'A triumph . . . This wholly convincing portrait of a human life unweaving before your eyes is inventive and absorbing, by turns funny, absurd and ultimately very moving.' Sunday Times'A dream of a book: a beguiling comedy of manners that evolves almost magically into a profound and heart-rending study of personality, class and culture.' New York TImes Book Review
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**OVER 2 MILLION COPIES SOLD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE#9 in the New York Times '100 Best Books of the 21st Century''Brilliantly executed.' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'TIME'Masterly.' SUNDAY TIMES One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning authorKazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.'Exquisite.'GUARDIAN'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' NEW YORK TIMES What readers are saying:'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.''I loved it, every single word of it.''It took me wholly by surprise.''Utterly beautiful.''Essentially perfect.'
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'After all what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?'In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past...A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House, of lost causes and lost love.The Remains of the Day is now available as a Faber Modern Classics edition.
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**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Brilliantly executed.' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'TIME'Masterly.' SUNDAY TIMES One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning authorKazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.'Exquisite.'GUARDIAN'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' NEW YORK TIMES What readers are saying:'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.''I loved it, every single word of it.''It took me wholly by surprise.''Utterly beautiful.''Essentially perfect.'
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This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "greatness," and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.
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Ryder, en internationellt känd klassisk pianist, checkar in som celeber inbjuden gäst på ett hotell i en stad någonstans i Centraleuropa. Han vet att han ska uppträda på konserthuset om några dagar, men medan Gustav, hotellets bärare, eskorterar honom till hans rum, förefaller det honom som om det är mycket mer med detta besök än han först anat. Han blir vittne till sorg, grymhet och död, men hastar ständigt vidare utan att någonsin stanna upp, som i en dröm utan slut. Sitt tidsschema har han förlagt, eller kanske aldrig fått; och hela tiden distraheras han av andra människors krav eller av sin egen nyckfullhet. Den otröstade är en sorglig, märklig komedi som formar sig till en mäktig parabel om det moderna samhällets absurditet och förvirring.
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Med debuten Bleknande berg (1982) etablerade sig nobelpristagaren Kazuo Ishiguro omedelbart som ett av den engelska litteraturens mest intressanta namn. Det är en skenbart stillsam berättelse om minnets bräcklighet, om uppbrott och traditioner, öst och väst, och om sådant som aldrig kan göras ogjort.
Den åldrade japanska kvinnan Etsuko lever numera ensam i England. Hon sörjer sin dotter som nyligen gått bort och tänker tillbaka på det som varit. Hon minns en varm sommar för många år sedan i Nagasaki, när hon och hennes vänner försökte återskapa sina liv efter kriget och atombombens fall. Särskilt påträngande är det grumliga minnet av vännen Sachiko – en egensinnig kvinna som väntar på att få resa till Amerika – och hennes barn Mariko.
I nyöversättning av Niclas Hval.
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THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLERA NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURYA SUNDAY TIMES 'TOP 5 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY''Masterly.' Sunday Times'A brilliantly executed book by a master craftsman.' MARGARET ATWOOD'A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.' TIME**Complete with a brand new introduction from the Nobel Prize-winning author.**A beautiful anniversary edition to mark twenty years of Kazuo Ishiguro's modern classic, in which he imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of 1990s England.Narrated by Kathy H, as she tries to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, it is a story of love, friendship and memory, charged throughout with a sense of life's fragility.Readers adore Never Let Me Go: 'A masterpiece . . . a beautifully written, skilfully crafted story that reveals what lies in the core of the human heart.''Touches the depths of your intellect and your soul.''A genuinely moving illustration of an aspect of human nature that we usually like to ignore.''I guarantee it will move you and probably bring you close to tears.' 'A masterful read: gripping, thought-provoking, and immensely sad . . . I have found myself thinking about it for days.''Undoubtedly a modern classic that spans genres.''I read it in a day and I am certain it will stay with me for years.'
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In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II.
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*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*In Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood Hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme - the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships founder and youthful hopes recede.'Each of these stories is heartbreaking in its own way, but some have moments of great comedy, and they all require a level of attention that, typically, Ishiguro's writing rewards.' Observer'[They] come up on you quietly, but then haunt you for days . These little pieces could only be the work of a great composer.' Evening Standard'A fine and moving collection of stories, displaying his unique combination of the sad, the stoic and the consoling. It's about failure, but it dignifies failure, and with it, the human condition.' Margaret Drabble, Guardian
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**AS HEARD ON BBC RADIO 4 BOOK AT BEDTIME**FROM THE NOBEL PRIZE WINNING, BESTSELLING AUTHOR OF NEVER LET ME GOSHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZEWINNER OF THE COSTA BOOK OF THE YEAR1948: Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.'An exquisite novel.' Observer'Pitch-perfect. . . a tour de force of unreliable narration.' Guardian'A work of spare elegance: refined, understated, economic.' Sunday Times
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*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available to preorder*'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch...'In a sublime short story collection, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning.Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede.If you enjoyed Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.
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NOW A MAJOR FILM DIRECTED BY KEI ISHIKAWAKazuo Ishiguro's highly acclaimed debut, first published in 1982, tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter.Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories start to take on a disturbing cast.'A macabre and faultlessly worked enigma.' Sunday Times'One of the outstanding fictional debuts of recent years.' Observer'A delicate, ironic, elliptical novel . Its characters are remarkably convincing . but what one remembers is its balance, halfway between elegy and irony.' New York Times Book Review'An extraordinarily fine first novel . its themes are deceptively large and uncommonly haunting.' Los Angeles Times
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**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Brilliantly executed.' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'TIME'Masterly.' SUNDAY TIMES One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning authorKazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.'Exquisite.'GUARDIAN'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' NEW YORK TIMES What readers are saying:'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.''I loved it, every single word of it.''It took me wholly by surprise.''Utterly beautiful.''Essentially perfect.'
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Shortlisted for the Booker PrizeEngland, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.'You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.' John Carey, Sunday Times'Ishiguro is the best and most original novelist of his generation and When We Were Orphans could be by no other writer. It haunts the mind. It moves to tears.' Susan Hill, Mail on Sunday'Discloses a writer not only near the height of his powers but in a league all of his own.' Boyd Tonkin, Independent
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Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give . . .On first publication in 1995, The Unconsoled was met in some quarters with bewilderment and vilification, in others with the highest praise. One commentator asked, 'Has Ishiguro gone for greatness or has he gone mad?' Over the years, this uniquely strange and extraordinary novel about a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control has come to be seen by many as being the key work and a turning point in his career.'A masterpiece. It is above all a book devoted to the human heart.' Rachel Cusk, The Times'The most original and remarkable book he has so far produced.' New York Times Book Review'One of the strangest books in memory.' TLS'I've never read a book like it. I think it is a masterpiece.' John Carey, The Late Show
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The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin.The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.'A beautiful fable with a hard message at its core . . . There won't, I suspect, be a more important work of fiction published this year.' The Times'An exceptional novel . . . The Buried Giant does what important books do: it remains in the mind long after it has been read, refusing to leave.' New York Times Book Review'A beautiful, heartbreaking book about the duty to remember and the urge to forget.' Observer
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ONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said, it's "a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance". This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change. Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide.Stevens, the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside, but also into his own past. Reflecting on his years of service, he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain, and question whether his dignity and properness have come at a greater cost to himself.
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Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible educational edition offers the complete text of Never Let Me Go with a comprehensive study guide. Intended for individual study as well as class use, Geoff Barton's guide:- clearly introduces the context of the novel and its author;- examines in detail its themes, characters and structure;- looks at the novel in the author's own words, and at different critical receptions;- provides glossaries and test questions to prompt deeper thinking.In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at a seemingly idyllic school, Hailsham, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
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Delivered in Stockholm on 7 December 2017, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs is the lecture of the Nobel Laureate in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.