Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro is a British Nobel Prize-winning author who has written several works that blend literary fiction with science fiction themes. Never Let Me Go, a quiet dystopian novel about cloned humans, is considered one of the great novels of the twenty-first century. His novel The Buried Giant incorporates Arthurian fantasy elements into a meditation on memory and forgetting.
Works
- The Remains of the DayEnglish butler reflects on decades of service and unexamined emotions in post-war England
- Never Let Me GoDystopian story of cloned humans raised for organ donation in near-future England
- An Artist of the Floating WorldAging Japanese artist recounts his life and changing loyalties during wartime occupation
- The Buried GiantFantasy novel of an aging warrior and his wife seeking a giant in mythic Britain
- Klara and the SunNear-future story of an artificial companion learning what it means to be human
- When We Were OrphansMan searches for his missing parents across interwar Shanghai and post-war London
- The UnconsoledPianist navigates a dreamlike hotel searching for his agent and lost opportunities