Lessons from Ishiguro, Nobel Laureate

One of the books I read over the holiday was When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro.

I love Ishiguro so I was delighted when a friend loaned me this book. My favourite novel of his is Never Let Me Go, a dystopian novel about a group of children who grow up in a boarding school and who discover the nightmarish truth of the situation in drip by frightening drip. It was shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize the same year. His novel about the butler Stevens, Remains of the Day also very good, won the Man Booker Prize in 1989.

Ishiguro is British but was born in Nagasaki Japan although he left there when he was five-years-old. 

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Inspect the voters' roll!

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