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An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro
27.00 NZD
Category: Fiction | Reading Level: very good
It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking ...Show more
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the ...Show more
My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs (The Nobel Lecture) by Kazuo Ishiguro
14.00 NZD
Category: Biography / Memoir
A generous and hugely insightful biographical sketch, it explores his relationship with his homeland of Japan, reflections on his own novels and an insight into some of his inspirations, from the worlds of writing, music and film. Ending with a rallying call for the ongoing importance of literature in t ...Show more
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at ...Show more
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
The extraordinary novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatri ...Show more
The Remains of the Day by Kazuo Ishiguro
28.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: near fine
In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past . . . A haunting tale of lost causes and lost love, The Remains of the Day, winner of the Booker Prize, contains Ishiguro's now cele ...Show more
The Unconsoled by Kazuo Ishiguro
33.00 NZD
Category: Fiction - Contemporary | Reading Level: very good
By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go Ryder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely ma ...Show more
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