Kazuo Ishiguro Libros

Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, durante treinta años ha sido mayordomo de Darlington Hall. Lord Darlington murió hace tres años, y la propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. El mayordomo, por primera vez en su vida, hará un viaje. Su nuevo patrón regresará por unas semanas a su país, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo su coche que fuera de Lord Darlington para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens, en el antiguo, lento y señorial auto de sus patrones, cruzará durante días Inglaterra rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall. Y jornada a jornada, Ishiguro desplegará ante el lector una novela perfecta de luces y claroscuros, de máscaras que apenas se deslizan para desvelar una realidad mucho más amarga que los amables paisajes que el mayordomo deja atrás. Porque Stevens averigua que Lord Darlington fue un miembro de la clase dirigente inglesa que se dejó seducir por el fascismo y conspiró activamente para conseguir una alianza entre Inglaterra y Alemania.

Éste es el primer libro de relatos del autor, reúne cinco historias que pueden leerse como estudios y variaciones sobre unos cuantos temas o como todo un concierto. En «El cantante melódico», un guitarrista de oficio reconoce a un vocalista americano y juntos aprenden una lección sobre el distinto valor del pasado. En «Come Rain or Come Shine», un maniaco-depresivo es humillado en casa de una pareja de antiguos progres que han pasado a la fase yuppie. El músico de «Malvern Hills» columbra su mediocridad cuando prepara un álbum a la sombra de John Elgar. En «Nocturno», un saxofonista conoce a una vieja artista de variedades. En «Violonchelistas», un joven prodigio del chelo encuentra a una mujer misteriosa que le ayuda a perfeccionar su técnica. Las cinco barajan elementos que son habituales en el autor: la confrontación de las promesas de la juventud y los desengaños del tiempo, el misterio del otro, los finales ambiguos y sin catarsis. Y la música, íntimamente relacionada con la vida y obra del autor. «Otro brillante libro de Kazuo Ishiguro» (Frank Kermode, London Review of Books); «Obras maestras intemporales, traducidas a más de cuarenta idiomas» (Alexandre Fillon, Lire).

Experience the wonder of the written word from some of the greatest writers of the modern age, with Faber Modern Classics. The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's best-loved Booker Prize-winning novel.

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. A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in the world, it is a characteristically thoughtful and moving piece.

of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly 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.If you enjoyed Never Let Me Go, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.

But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.If you enjoyed An Artist of the Floating World, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.

In his highly acclaimed debut novel, A Pale View of Hills, 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 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.

As Japan rebuilds her cities after the calamity of World War II, the celebrated painter Masuji Ono should be enjoying a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to a life and career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism, a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

*The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller* *Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021* *A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick* 'A delicate, haunting story' The Washington Post 'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.' The Times 'The Sun always has ways to reach us.' From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and The Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.