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Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro é um escritor nipo-britânico. Em 2017 foi laureado com o Nobel de Literatura, em virtude da grande força emocional presente em seus romances, e assim revelando o abismo sob o nosso ilusório sentido de conexão com o mundo. A sua obra foi traduzida em mais de 28 países.

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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 …

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When We Were Orphans is the fifth novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2000. It is loosely categorised as a detective novel. When We Were Orphans was shortlisted for the 2000 Man Booker Prize, though it is considered one of Ishiguro's weakest works, with Ishiguro himself saying "It's not …

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In An Artist of the Floating World, Kazuo Ishiguro offers readers of the English language an authentic look at postwar Japan, "a floating world" of changing cultural behaviors, shifting societal patterns and troubling questions. Ishiguro, who was born in Nagasaki in 1954 but moved to England in 1960, writes the story …

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Kazuo Ishiguro foi elogiado no Sunday Times por «ampliar as possibilidades da ficção». Em Nunca Me Deixes, que se encontra certamente entre as suas melhores obras, conta-nos uma extraordinária história de amor, perda e verdades escondidas. Kathy, Ruth e Tommy cresceram em Hailsham - um colégio interno idílico situado …

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The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's third published novel. The work was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. A film adaptation of the novel, made in 1993 and starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, was nominated for eight Academy Awards. As in Ishiguro's two previous novels, the story is told …