Books by Kazuo Ishiguro

AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOWFrom the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love?

The top ten bestseller from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the DayShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn one of the most acclaimed 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 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.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me GoWinner of the Booker PrizeONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'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.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.

Kathy, Tommy og Ruth lever et beskyttet liv på kostskolen Hailsham i England, hvor de bliver opdraget til at tro, at de er noget særligt. Men efter opholdet udvikler de søgende børn sig til forvirrede voksne - for hvad var egentlig grunden til, at de i sin tid blev sendt på kostskole? Sandheden går langsomt op for dem i denne foruroligende og gribende historie.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoIn his highly acclaimed debut, Kazuo Ishiguro 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 night in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.

Kazuo Ishiguros roman Den begravede kæmpe handler om et aldrende ægtepar, der i tiden efter Kong Arthurs død sætter ud på en lang rejse til fods for at opsøge deres søn, som de ikke har set længe, men undervejs ændrer rejsens mål sig og bliver i lige så høj grad en rejse for at afdække grunden til den mystiske tåge, der hærger landet. Det er en både grusom og bevægende historie om hukommelsestab, kærlig, hævn og krig.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 1948: 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.

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and the highest praise.

"Klara og solen" er Kazuo Ishiguros første roman efter at han modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur.Det er historien om Klara, en Kunstig Ven, med en usædvanlig observationsevne, som fra sin plads bag butiksruden observerer adfærden hos de kunder, der kommer ind for at se på varerne, men også er ualmindelig opmærksom på de mennesker, der går forbi på fortovet udenfor.  Hun håber til stadighed på at få sig en menneskelig ejer, at en kunde skal vælge hende, men da det viser sig, at dette sandsynligvis vil forandre Klaras liv for altid, tager hun det som en advarsel mod at fæste alt for stor lid til menneskers løfter. "Klara og solen" er en stærkt bevægende og overrumplende roman om, hvad det vil sige at elske et andet menneske.I begrundelsen for Nobelprisen i 2017 blev Ishiguros romaner beskrevet som ”romaner med en stor følelsesmæssig virkning, som afdækker afgrunden under vores illusoriske forbundethed med omverdenen.” 

An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day'You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...'The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

En sommerdag i 1956 tager Stevens, en ældre men formfuldendt engelsk butler, af sted på en af sit livs sjældne ferier, en biltur gennem Vestengland. Men hans rejsestemning bliver hele tiden forstyrret af minder om gamle dage på godset Darlington Hall, om herskabet dér og om hans venskab med kollegaen Miss Kenton. For første gang nogen sinde sker det, at Stevens kommer til at tænke på, om han har handlet rigtigt ved at gøre og mene og sige, som han fik besked på. Det var f.eks. det med herskabets politiske engagement i trediverne. Og hvordan har han egentlig selv virket på sine omgivelser.

Christopher Banks vokser op i Shanghai i begyndelsen af det tyvende århundrede. Da Christopher endnu er barn forsvinder faren, som er indblandet i opiumshandel, og siden også moren sporløst. Christopher sendes som forældreløs over til sin tante i London, hvor han vokser op og bliver uddannet på Cambridge og senere detektiv. I 1937 beslutter han sig for at rejse tilbage til det krigshærgede Shanghai for endelig at finde ud af, hvad der i sin tid skete under hans forældres mystiske forsvinden.

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with.

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.

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this volume is intended equally for those studying independently, with a personal tutor, or in class. It covers the context of the novel and its author; detailed examination of themes, characters and structure; a close look the novel in the author's own words, and more.

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoShortlisted for the Booker PrizeEngland, the 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 inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoIn Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores the 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 hope recedes.