New Releases by Kazuo Ishiguro

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously illustrated volume of lyrics written for the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated jazz singer Stacey Kent. Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain collects the lyrics of sixteen songs he wrote for world-renowned American singer Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner, Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming together of the literary and musical worlds, the lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces. Further exploring the notion of collaboration and interpretation, the collection is illustrated by the acclaimed Italian artist Bianca Bagnarelli, whose work perfectly captures the atmosphere and sensibility of the songs.

L’humanité a été transformée par la technologie : désormais, les adolescents ne vont plus à l’école et grandissent avec leurs Amis Artificiels. Ces robots de pointe sont conçus pour les instruire, les distraire et veiller sur eux. Dans la vitrine du magasin, Klara, une AA particulièrement intelligente, attend avec impatience d’être choisie. Elle observe les passants et rêve d’éprouver comme eux de la joie, de la peur, de l’amour. Bientôt, l’occasion de découvrir le monde se présente : elle est achetée par Josie, une adolescente atteinte d’une mystérieuse maladie. Mais en pénétrant l’intimité de sa nouvelle famille, Klara ne se doute pas qu’elle va devenir le témoin de troublants secrets.

Ketika negerinya menghadapi masa penuh penderitaan, seniman Masuji Ono membaktikan seninya tidak hanya untuk merayakan keindahan material. Ia berkarya untuk mendukung gerakan imperialis yang membawa Jepang memasuki Perang Dunia II. Sekarang, ketika Ono yang telah menua berjuang melewati masa paska peperangan, ia melarikan diri ke dalam kenangan masa muda dan “dunia di atas awan” —dunia malam yang penuh kenikmatan, hiburan, dan alkohol. Dicela masyarakat karena kekalahan negerinya dan dicaci karena pilihan estetika masa lalunya, Ono mengenang kembali sejarah hidupnya yang menjadikan ia pahlawan dan pengecut, tapi lebih daripada segalanya: manusia.

"Det är inget mindre än storslaget." SvDFrån sin plats i butiken som säljer artificiella vänner observerar Klara - en artificiell vän med enastående iakttagelseförmåga - noggrant beteendet hos dem som kommer in för att handla. Hon hyser gott hopp om att en kund snart ska välja just henne. Men när möjligheten till ett helt nytt liv väl dyker upp varnas Klara för att inte lita för mycket på löften från människor.I denna glimrande roman skildrar Kazuo Ishiguro vår snabbt föränderliga värld genom en oförglömlig berättares ögon och utforskar en grundläggande fråga: Vad betyder det att älska?

Ein großer Sportplatz, freundliche Klassenzimmer und getrennte Schlafsäle für Jungen und Mädchen – auf den ersten Blick scheint Hailsham ein ganz gewöhnliches englisches Internat zu sein. Aber die Lehrer, so engagiert und freundlich sie auch sind, heißen hier Aufseher, und sie lassen die Kinder früh spüren, dass sie für eine besondere Zukunft ausersehen sind. Dieses Gefühl hält Kathy, Ruth und Tommy durch alle Stürme der Pubertät und Verwirrungen der Liebe zusammen – bis es an der Zeit ist, ihrer wahren Bestimmung zu folgen.

International super literary author: Kazuo Ishiguro''s latest creation after winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017 exposes the abyss under the illusion of connecting people to the world in novels with powerful emotional power. Nobel Prize in Literature. This is a novel about the human heart, which comes from another place. At this moment, you and I must whisper. The world where reality and fantasy intersect, after all, cannot break free from the shackles of human nature.

NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of Never Let Me Go is “an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness” (The Associated Press). • A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

In his highly-acclaimed debut, 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.

Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles. 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. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it. In Kazuo Ishiguro''s hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.

The Unconsoled is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, first published in 1995 by Faber and Faber, and winner of the Cheltenham Prize that year. The novel takes place over a period of three days. It is about Ryder, a famous pianist who arrives in a central European city to perform a concert. He is entangled in a web of appointments and promises which he cannot seem to remember, struggling to fulfill his commitments before Thursday night''s performance and frustrated with his inability to take control. The Unconsoled was described as a "sprawling, almost indecipherable 500-page work" that "left readers and reviewers baffled". It received strong negative reviews with a few positive ones. Literary critic James Wood said that the novel had "invented its own category of badness". However, a 2006 poll of various literary critics voted the novel as the third "best British, Irish, or Commonwealth novel from 1980 to 2005", tied with Anthony Burgess''s Earthly Powers, Salman Rushdie''s Midnight''s Children, Ian McEwan''s Atonement, and Penelope Fitzgerald''s The Blue Flower. John Carey, book critic for the Sunday Times, also placed the novel on his list of the 20th century''s 50 most enjoyable books. It has come to be generally regarded as one of Ishiguro''s best works.--Wikipedia, accessed 11 February 2022.

Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, fue durante treinta años mayordomo de Lord Darlington, quien murió hace tres años, y su propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. Su nuevo patrón regresará por unas semanas a su país, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo el auto para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens se embarca en un viaje por el país rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall. Jornada a jornada, Ishiguro desplegará ante el lector una novela perfecta de luces y claroscuros 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. Y descubre, y también el lector, que hay algo peor incluso que haber servido a un hombre indigno.

Nouvelle édition

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career—“small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation”—that made him the writer he is today. With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean—what it will demand of us—to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential. An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.

In celebration of Kazuo Ishiguro winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature: a special gift hardback edition of his 1989 Booker Prize-winning novel.

Kazuo Ishiguro er modtager af Nobelprisen i litteratur 2017. 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. Romanen er filmatiseret med Anthony Hopkins og Emma Thompson i hovedrollerne.

‘Een kunstenaar van het vlietende leven’ van Kazuo Ishiguro speelt in oktober 1948. Japan heeft de oorlog verloren. De Amerikanen hebben Japan bezet en gedragsnormen zijn radicaal veranderd. De jeugd noemt hen die Japan tot de afgrond hebben gebracht verraders. Sommigen van hen plegen zelfmoord om boete te doen. Masuji Ono is een invloedrijk kunstenaar geweest. Zijn vrouw en zoon zijn in de oorlog omgekomen. De oude schilder heeft zijn schilderijen weggezet. Hij vertelt in dit boek vergoelijkend over zijn jeugdig idealisme, over zijn leermeesters en leerlingen; over zijn aandeel in de oorlog toen hij zich leende voor propagandistische doeleinden waardoor veel jonge mannen de dood in werden gejaagd. Kazuo Ishiguro is een van de meest bekroonde en gelauwerde auteurs uit het Engels taalgebied. In 2017 werd zijn oeuvre bekroond met de Nobelprijs voor de Literatuur. ‘In romans met een grote emotionele zeggingskracht legt Ishiguro onze wankele verbintenis met de wereld bloot.’ – Nobelprijscomité 2017

"Gisaburo, dit-il, après un long silence, n''a pas eu la vie drôle. Son talent a complètement périclité. Ceux qu''il aimait sont morts depuis longtemps ou l''ont abandonné. Même du temps de notre jeunesse, c''était déjà un type triste, solitaire. Mori-san marqua une pause. Mais parfois, nous buvions et nous nous amusions avec les femmes des quartiers de plaisir. C''est ce que les gens appellent le monde flottant : c''était un monde, Ono, dont Gisaburo connaissait toute la valeur." Le peintre Masugi Ono, vieux maître de l''art officiel nippon, songe à sa jeunesse bohème et se remémore ce monde flottant qu''il a tant fréquenté. Confronté à l''émergence d''une nouvelle société ouverte à l''Occident, il interroge son passé et tente de donner un sens à sa vie dans le Japon de l''après-guerre. Évocation d''une vie et d''un monde révolus, réflexion toute en nuances sur la finalité de l''oeuvre d''art, Un artiste du monde flottant est un livre envoûtant.

«Un romanzo meraviglioso, il migliore che Ishiguro abbia scritto dai tempi del sublime Quel che resta del giorno ». «The Washington Post»

The fifth novel "When We Were Orphans" by the Japanese Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro throws the harsh reality of Shanghai occupied by Japanese forces on the eve of World War II. Shanghai is also the childhood city of Christopher Banks, where both of his parents have disappeared: a mother who openly criticized the devastating British opium business in China, and a father who worked for a large opium business. In 1937, the detective returns to Shanghai to begin the search for missing parents. As is often the case with Ishiguro, the reader soon notices that Banks is not a very reliable narrator - the boundaries between the chaos in his inner world and the confusion around him tend to blur. The protagonist arrives at a painful end in Shanghai''s burning poor quarters, which are more like a nightmare. One of the pervasive themes of Ishiguro''s work is the secrets cut out of life or buried deep in life, brought to light by accidental yet inevitable contact with the pain points of another life. From an aerial point of view, the novel is reminiscent of a safe classic crime novel, while at the same time suggesting the irony and bitterness lurking beneath the surface.

Inglaterra en la Edad Media. Del paso de los romanos por la isla sólo quedan ruinas, y Arturo y Merlín –amados por unos, odiados por otros– son leyendas del pasado. Entre la bruma todavía habitan ogros, y británicos y sajones conviven en unas tierras yermas, distribuidos en pequeñas aldeas. En una de ellas vive una pareja de ancianos –Axl y Beatrice– que toma la decisión de partir en busca de su hijo. Éste se marchó hace mucho tiempo, aunque las circunstancias concretas de esa partida no las recuerdan, porque ellos, como el resto de habitantes de la región, han perdido buena parte de la memoria debido a lo que llaman «la niebla». En su periplo se encontrarán con un guerrero sajón llamado Wistan; un joven que lleva una herida que lo estigmatiza; y un anciano Sir Gawain, el último caballero de Arturo vivo, que vaga con su caballo por esas tierras con el encargo, según cuenta, de acabar con un dragón hembra que habita en las montañas. Juntos se enfrentarán a los peligros del viaje, a los soldados de Lord Brennus, a unos monjes que practican extraños ritos de expiación y a presencias mucho menos terrenales. Pero cada uno de estos viajeros lleva consigo secretos, culpas pendientes de redención y, en algún caso, una misión atroz que cumplir. Sumando el viaje iniciático, la fábula y la épica, Kazuo Ishiguro ha construido una narración bellísima, que indaga en la memoria y el olvido acaso necesario, en los fantasmas del pasado, en el odio larvado, la sangre y la traición con los que se forjan las patrias y a veces la paz. Pero habla también del amor perdurable, de la vejez y de la muerte. Una novela ambientada en un pasado remoto y legendario que vuelve sobre los grandes y eternos temas que inquietan a los seres humanos.

« Ishiguro excelle à créer un univers, à instaurer des climats que l’on n’oublie pas. » Lire Le livre : Axl et Beatrice vivent un amour constant qui a résisté aux années. Ils décident de faire un voyage pour rejoindre leur fils, parti depuis longtemps. De nombreux obstacles se dressent sur leur chemin, parfois étranges, parfois terrifiants, et mettent leur amour à l’épreuve. Leur parcours est une métaphore de nos vies à tous. Dix ans après Auprès de moi toujours, Kazuo Ishiguro revisite, dans Le Géant enfoui, les thèmes shakespeariens qui traversent son œuvre : la mémoire et l’oubli, la confiance et la haine, la vengeance et la justice. L’histoire d’Axl et Beatrice, une allégorie du monde moderne, est d’ores et déjà un monument de la littérature. L’auteur : Kazuo Ishiguro, né à Nagasaki, est arrivé en Grande-Bretagne à l’âge de cinq ans. Décrit par le New York Times comme « un génie original et remarquable », il est l’auteur de sept romans : Lumière pâle sur les collines, Un artiste du monde flottant (Whitbread Award), Les Vestiges du jour (Booker Prize), L’Inconsolé, Quand nous étions orphelins, Auprès de moi toujours, Le Géant enfoui et un recueil de nouvelles : Nocturnes. Tous ses ouvrages sont traduits dans plus de quarante langues. En 1995, Kazuo Ishiguro a été décoré de l’Ordre de l’Empire britannique pour services rendus à la littérature et, en 1998, la France l’a fait chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. Deux de ses livres ont été adaptés au cinéma : Les Vestiges du jour, avec Emma Thompson et Anthony Hopkins, et, plus récemment, Auprès de moi toujours, avec Carey Mulligan et Keira Knightley. Les droits cinématographiques de son dernier roman, Le Géant enfoui, ont été vendus à Hollywood. Kazuo Ishiguro vit à Londres avec son épouse.

NATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven''t seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

Traditional Chinese edition of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, decide to find the son they have not seen for years and scarcely remember. Along the way they meet a Saxon warrior and his orphan companion and a knight. Yet this fantasy setting is just a cover for deep philosophical discussions about life. Acclaimed and Booker Prize winning writer Ishiguro''s first novel in ten years. In Traditional Chinese. Annotation copyright Tsai Fong Books, Inc. Distributed by Tsai Fong Books, Inc.