Kazuo Ishiguro

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.
One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school...

"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life....

Here is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "great gentleman," Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about...

Simplified Chinese edition of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, decide to find the son they have not seen for years and scarcely remember. Along the way they meet a Saxon warrior and his orphan companion and a knight. Yet this fantasy setting is just a cover for deep philosophical discussions about life. Acclaimed and Booker Prize winning writer Ishiguro's first novel in ten years. 公元六世纪的英格兰，本土不列颠人与撒克逊入侵者之间的战争似乎已走到了终点——和平降临了这片土地，两个族群比邻而居，相安无事地共同生活了数十年。但与此同时，一片奇怪的“遗忘之雾”充盈着英格兰的山谷，吞噬着村民们的记忆，使他们的生活好似一场毫无意义的白日梦。一对年迈的不列颠夫妇想要赶在记忆完全丧失前找到此刻依稀停留在脑海中的儿子，于是匆匆踏上了一段艰辛的旅程。他们渴望让迷雾散去，渴望重拾两人相伴一生的恩爱回忆——但这片静谧的雾霭掩盖的却是一个黑暗血腥的过去，那是一个在数十年前被不列颠人的亚瑟王用违背理想的手段掩埋的巨人。一个神秘的撒克逊武士肩负使命来到这片看似平和的山谷，他那谦逊的外表背后究竟隐藏着怎样秘而不宣的动机？他的使命带给这个国度将是宽恕的橄榄枝还是复仇的剑与火？而亚瑟王最后的骑士高文则决心用生命守护国王的遗产，因为守护它就就意味着守护最后的和平。记忆与宽恕，复仇与和平，四人的命运不可避免地交织在了一处，而结局只有一个。...

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.

"From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously illustrated volume of lyrics written for the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated jazz singer Stacey Kent. Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain collects the lyrics of sixteen songs he wrote for world-renowned American singer Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner, Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming...

Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together in the isolated boarding school called Hailsham, with a chilling secret. As children, Kathy is secretly in love with Tommy. Then she sees her best friend Ruth holding Tommy's hand, and is devastated. As adolescents, Tommy and Kathy form a deep connection, only to have Ruth shove them apart with her own romantic demands. As they prepare to leave the school, they learn of their true purpose:...