The arrival of a new Ishiguro novel is undoubtedly a main event in any year’s literary calendar. This month, the Nobel and Booker Prize winning author Kazuo Ishiguro released his eighth title, Klara and the Sun. Ishiguro has long been a pillar of contemporary literary fiction. Though not without his detractors, many of whom critique […]
After awarding him the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy described Kazuo Ishiguro as a writer “who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” This comment brings to mind Ishiguro’s 2005 novel Never Let Me Go – shortlisted for that year’s […]