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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 — 734,341 ratings — published 2005 — 333 editions
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Klara and the Sun

3.75 avg rating — 364,254 ratings — published 2021 — 40 editions
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The Remains of the Day

4.14 avg rating — 317,818 ratings — published 1989 — 86 editions
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The Buried Giant

3.58 avg rating — 110,050 ratings — published 2015 — 18 editions
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When We Were Orphans

3.54 avg rating — 42,934 ratings — published 2000 — 161 editions
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An Artist of the Floating W...

3.78 avg rating — 40,088 ratings — published 1986 — 159 editions
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A Pale View of Hills

3.79 avg rating — 36,876 ratings — published 1982
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Nocturnes: Five Stories of ...

3.51 avg rating — 29,397 ratings — published 2009 — 139 editions
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The Unconsoled

3.58 avg rating — 16,329 ratings — published 1995 — 131 editions
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Come Rain or Come Shine

3.65 avg rating — 3,012 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

Polls

January 2018 revisit the Shelf Reread Poll

Doctor Zhivago by Boris Pasternak, 592 pages, 1951
 
  66 votes, 19.4%

 
  65 votes, 19.1%

 
  46 votes, 13.5%

A Clockwork Orange by Anthony Burgess, 212 pages, 1962
 
  37 votes, 10.9%

Oliver Twist by Charles Dickens, 608 pages, 1838
 
  30 votes, 8.8%

The Princess Bride by William Goldman, 298 pages, 1973
 
  29 votes, 8.5%

The Invisible Man by H.G. Wells, 192 pages, 1897
 
  25 votes, 7.3%

 
  21 votes, 6.2%

The Caine Mutiny by Herman Wouk, 560 pages, 1951
 
  13 votes, 3.8%

 
  9 votes, 2.6%

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