Author Series 8
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro
o British novelist, screenwriter, and short-story writer.
o He was born in Nagasaki, Japan.
o His most famous novels The Remains of the Day, Never Let Me Go.
o Nobel Prize in Literature – 2017
o First novel, A Pale View of Hills, published in 1982.
o Ishiguro's novels set in the past. Never Let Me Go has science fiction qualities and a futuristic tone; however, it is set in the 1980s and 1990s, and thus takes place in a very similar parallel world.
o His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, takes place in an unnamed Central European city.
o The Remains of the Day is set in the large country house of an English lord in the period surrounding World War II.
o An Artist of the Floating World is set in an unnamed Japanese city during the period of reconstruction following Japan's surrender in 1945.
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