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Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan; his family moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro graduated from the University of Kent with a bachelor's degree in English and Philosophy in 1978 and gained his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day. His 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, was named by Time as the best novel of 2005 and included in its list of the 100 best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005. His seventh novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2017, the Nobel Prize in Literature was awarded to Ishiguro "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

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Arriving in a European city with significant gaps in his memory, Ryder, a renowned pianist, is overwhelmed by an onslaught of strangers who seem to know him and of whom he experiences vague, dreamlike recollections. Reprint. 75,000 first printing.Title: The Unconsoled Author: Ishiguro, Kazuo Publisher: Random House …

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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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Το Μη μ' αφήσεις ποτέ είναι ένα μυθιστόρημα του 2005.

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ΣTH NEA TOY EΞAIPETIKH ΣYΛΛOΓH ΔIHΓHMATΩN O KAZOYO IΣIΓKOYPO KATAΠIANETAI ME TON EPΩTA, TH MOYΣIKH, TO ΠEPAΣMA TOY XPONOY. TO EΞAIΣIO AYTO ΛOΓOTEXNIKO KOYINTETO MAΣ METAΦEPEI AΠO THN ΠΛATEIA TOY AΓIOY MAPKOY THΣ BENETIAΣ ΣTHN ANΩNYMH AΓΓΛIKH YΠAIΘPO KI AΠO TO ΣAΛONI ENOΣ ΛONΔPEZIKOY ΔIAMEPIΣMATOΣ ΣTOYΣ AXANEIΣ …

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Τ' απομεινάρια μιας μέρας είναι ο τίτλος του βιβλίου που εκδόθηκε 1989 από τον Ιαπωνικής καταγωγής συγγραφέα Κάζουο Ισίγκουρο που έζησε μετά τα 5 του χρόνια στην Αγγλία. Το βιβλίο που αναφέρεται στη ζωή ενός Άγγλου μπάτλερ, απέσπασε πολλές θετικές κριτικές και κέρδισε μεταξύ άλλων το βραβείο Booker στην …