Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro
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Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages : 168
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ISBN-10 : 9781441100580
ISBN-13 : 144110058X
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Kazuo Ishiguro by : Sean Matthews

Download or read book Kazuo Ishiguro written by Sean Matthews and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2010-01-28 with total page 168 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest and most accomplished contemporary writers of his generation. The short story author, television writer and novelist, included twice in Granta's list of Best Young British Writers, has over the past twenty-five years produced a body of work which is just as critically-acclaimed as it is popular with the general public. Like the writings of Ian McEwan, Kazuo Ishiguro's work is concerned with creating discursive platforms for issues of class, ethics, ethnicity, nationhood, place, gender and the uses and problems surrounding artistic representation. As a Japanese immigrant who came to Great Britain in 1960, Ishiguro has used his unique position and fine intellectual abilities to contemplate what it means to be British in the contemporary era. This guide traces the main themes throughout Ishiguro's writing whilst it also pays attention to his short stories and writing for television. It includes a new interview with the author, a preface by Haruki Murakami and discussion of James Ivory's adaptation of The Remains of the Day.

Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro
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Publisher : Manchester University Press
Total Pages : 206
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ISBN-10 : 9781526185860
ISBN-13 : 1526185865
Rating : 4/5 (60 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Kazuo Ishiguro by : Barry Lewis

Download or read book Kazuo Ishiguro written by Barry Lewis and published by Manchester University Press. This book was released on 2024-07-30 with total page 206 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How Japanese is Ishiguro? What role does memory and unreliability play in his narratives? Why was The Unconsoled (1995) perceived to be such a radical break from the earlier novels?. The first complete study to consider all of Ishiguro's work from A pale view of the hills (1982) to When we were Orphans (2000), including his short stories and television plays. Explores the centrality of dignity and displacement in Ishiguro's vision, and teases out the connotations of home and homelessness in his fictions. Invaluable for students at all levels, especially as The Remains of the Day by Ishiguro is a set text at GCSE and A Level.

The Remains of the Day

The Remains of the Day
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 258
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ISBN-10 : 9780307576187
ISBN-13 : 0307576183
Rating : 4/5 (87 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Remains of the Day by : Kazuo Ishiguro

Download or read book The Remains of the Day written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2010-07-15 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: BOOKER PRIZE WINNER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is “an intricate and dazzling novel” (The New York Times) about the perfect butler and his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of a butler named Stevens. 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.

Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go
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Publisher : Vintage Canada
Total Pages : 274
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ISBN-10 : 9780307371331
ISBN-13 : 0307371336
Rating : 4/5 (31 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Never Let Me Go by : Kazuo Ishiguro

Download or read book Never Let Me Go written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage Canada. This book was released on 2009-03-19 with total page 274 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • The moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic from the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun—“a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist. “Brilliantly executed.” —Margaret Atwood “A page-turner and a heartbreaker.” —TIME “Masterly.” —Sunday Times As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.

Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun
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Publisher : Vintage
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780593318188
ISBN-13 : 0593318188
Rating : 4/5 (88 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Klara and the Sun by : Kazuo Ishiguro

Download or read book Klara and the Sun written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2021-03-02 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

The British National Bibliography

The British National Bibliography
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Publisher :
Total Pages : 1438
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ISBN-10 : UOM:39015079755800
ISBN-13 :
Rating : 4/5 (00 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The British National Bibliography by : Arthur James Wells

Download or read book The British National Bibliography written by Arthur James Wells and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 1438 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare

Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare
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Publisher : Pearson York Notes
Total Pages : 92
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ISBN-10 : 0582506263
ISBN-13 : 9780582506268
Rating : 4/5 (63 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare by : John Polley

Download or read book Romeo and Juliet, William Shakespeare written by John Polley and published by Pearson York Notes. This book was released on 2002 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This edition of York Notes for Romeo & Juliet has been replaced with a brand new edition which is available to buy now with the ISBN9781408248829.