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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.

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? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.

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.

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.

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.

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.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novelwinner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film. 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 "e;great gentleman,"e; Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "e;greatness,"e; and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

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 .

As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships, mysterious rules, and 'guardians' who constantly reminded the students how special they were. Now thirty-one, Kathy looks back on their shared past and tells how she and her friends gradually came to understand the shocking reason for the careful nurturing they had received. An affecting meditation on friendship, love and mortality.

Fantasyroman fra en av våre store fortellere. En dristig ny retning i et stort forfatterskap.Axl og Beatrice er et eldre britisk par som lever i en tid da folk virker ute av stand til å huske selv de viktigste ting. De bestemmer seg brått for å besøke en sønn som de hadde glemt at så mye som eksisterte og legger ut til fots. På vandringen treffer de en kriger, en ridder og et barn som alle slår seg sammen med dem. De møter en båtsmann hvis oppgave det er å ta folk over til de dødes øy, og bare dersom et par kan overbevise ham om at de virkelig elsker hverandre vil han ta dem med over sammen. Etter å ha truffet ham blir Axl og Beatrice plaget av redsel for at de ikke vil klare testen og dermed bli adskilt for alltid. Er det kanskje fordi de ikke husker at de er så sikre på at kjærligheten deres er så sterk at den kan overvinne selv døden?En kjempe begravd er en bok full av referanser til britisk mytologi, sagn og fortellinger. Arthur-legenden spiller en viktig rolle, og det skal vise seg at Axl og Beatrice har hatt en rolle i dramaet som nå gjør at ingen har hukommelse lenger.I hjertet av romanen, begravd i drager og riddere og alt som hører sjangeren til ligger dette: Et vakkert og rørende portrett av et ekteskap, og tanken om hvordan alt, selv våre høyest skattede minner, kan være sårbare. Å miste dem er å miste det aller mest dyrebare man eier.Kazuo Ishiguro fikk Nobelprisen i litteratur i 2017.

Nokturner er en samling noveller fra forfatteren av Resten av dagen og Gå aldri fra meg. Alle de fem fortellingene handler om musikere og musikk, og vi beveger oss fra italienske piazzaer til eksklusive hoteller i Hollywood. Vi møter både unge drømmere, kafémusikanter og falmede stjerner. I denne samlingen utforsker Ishiguro kjærligheten, musikken og tiden som svinner.Kazuo Ishiguro fikk Nobel-prisen i litteratur 2017.

Hovedpersonen i romanen er Christopher Banks, 21 år, som bor i London etter en oppvekst i Shanghai hvor foreldrene forsvant på mystisk vis. Han har alltid ønsket å bli detektiv, og vi følger ham i hans leting for å løse sitt livs altoverskyggende mysterium - de bortkomne foreldrene.

Kathy, Ruth og Tommy har vært elever ved Hailsham, en idyllisk kostskole på den engelske landsbygda. Elevene der fikk den beste omsorg, de blei opplært til at de var spesielle og enestående og at de hadde en bestemmelse. Mange år seinere lar Kathy, som nå er blitt 31, tankene vandre tilbake til årene på Hailsham. Langsomt avdekkes urovekkende kunnskaper om det livet elevene der er eslet til. Gradvis går sannheten om deres tilsynelatende sorgfrie oppvekst opp for dem, og det blir klart hva framtida vil bringe.

Stevens arbeider som butler og administrator på et gods i Syd-England. Nå har en ny herre overtatt, en amerikaner av den nye tid. For Stevens betyr dette oppløsning av rollen der lojalitet og underkastelse er vesentlig. Stevens begynner å tvile på de verdiene han har bygget sitt liv på.

Da Ryder ankommer hotellet i en sentral-europeisk by, er resepsjonen tom, men portieren Gustav dukker snart opp. Samtidig øver Brodsky på piano, til torsdagens konsert, som Ryder skal dirigere. På vei opp til rommet med Gustav hakk i hel, slår det Ryder at det er mer ved besøket enn ventet.

Det er 1948. Japan er i ferd med å gjenoppbygge sine byer etter krigens ødeleggelser. Folket prøver å legge nederlaget bak seg og se framover. Den berømte kunstneren, Masuji Ono, fyller dagene med hagearbeid, husreparasjoner, på sine to voksne døtre og sitt barnebarn. Og kveldene tilbringer han med gamle kjente på små lanterne-belyste barer. Men når minnene fra fortiden, fra et liv og en karriære dypt berørt av den japanske militarismen, kontinuerlig dukker opp, bringer det mørke skyer over hans rolige pensjonisttilværelse.

Klara og Solen er Kazuo Ishiguros første roman etter at han fikk Nobelprisen i litteratur. Klara er en Kunstig Venn - en form for kunstig intelligens utviklet for å hjelpe unge mennesker inn i voksenverdenen. Fra utstillingsvinduet i butikken der hun er til salgs, observerer Klara det som foregår ute på gaten. Hun studerer hvordan menneskene forholder seg til hverandre, og håper at det snart er hennes tur til å bli valgt ut. Da ønsket endelig går i oppfyllelse og hun får bli med 13-årige Josie hjem, forstår Klara imidlertid raskt at det menneskene lover henne, ikke nødvendigvis er til å stole på. Klara og Solen er en rørende og inntrykksfull roman med en uforglemmelig forteller. Det er en bok som snakker til oss fra et uventet perspektiv om empati og kjærlighet, om globale klasseskiller og de skremmende sidene ved moderne teknologi. Lanseringen av boken - på engelsk, norsk og et titall andre språk 2. mars 2021 - blir en stor internasjonal litterær begivenhet.

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day, which sold over a million copies in English alone and was the basis of a film starring Anthony Hopkins. Now When We Were Orphans, his extraordinary fifth novel, has been called his fullest achievement yet (The New York Times Book Review) and placed him again on the Booker shortlist. A complex, intelligent, subtle and restrained psychological novel built along the lines of a detective story, it confirms Ishiguro as one of the most important writers in English today. Londons Sunday Times said: You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.The novel takes us to Shanghai in the late 1930s, with English detective Christopher Banks bent on solving the mystery that has plagued him all his life: the disappearance of his parents when he was eight. By his own account, he is now a celebrated gentleman sleuth, the toast of London society. But as we learn, he is also a solitary figure, his career built on an obsession. Believing his parents may still be held captive, he longs to put right as an adult what he was powerless to change as a child, when he played at being Sherlock Holmes before both his parents vanished and he was sent to England to be raised by an aunt. Banks father was involved in the importation of opium, and solving the mystery means finding that his boyhood was not the innocent, enchanted world he has cherished in memory. The Shanghai he revisits is in the throes of the SinoJapanese war, an apocalyptic nightmare; he sees the horror of the slums surrounding the international community in a dreamscape worthy of Borges (The Independent). We think that if we can only put something right that went a bit awry, then our lives would be healed and the world would be healed, says Ishiguro of the illusion under which his hero suffers. It becomes increasingly clear that Banks is not to be trusted as a narrator. The stiff, elegant voice grows more hysterical, his vision more feverish, as he comes closer to the truth. Like Ryder of The Unconsoled, Ishiguros previous novel, Banks is trapped in his boyhood fantasy, and he follows his obsession at the cost of personal happiness. Other characters appear as projections of his fears and desires. All Ishiguros novels concern themselves with the past, the consequences of denying it and the unreliability of memory.It is from Ishiguros own family history that the novel takes its setting. Though his family is Japanese, Ishiguros father was born in Shanghais international community in 1920; his grandfather was sent there to set up a Chinese branch of Toyota, then a textile company. My father has old pictures of the first Mr. Toyota driving his Rolls-Royce down the Bund. When the Japanese invaded in 1937, the fighting left the international commune a ghetto, and his family moved back to Nagasaki.When We Were Orphans raises the bar for the literary mystery. Though more complex than much of Ishiguros earlier work, which has led to mixed reactions, it was published internationally (his work has been published in 28 languages) and was a New York Times bestseller.

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.

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.

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.

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.