Winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature.In one of the most memorable 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 the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship an...

Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

In ‘Nocturnes’ speelt Kazuo Ishiguro met ideeën over liefde, muziek en het verstrijken van de tijd. De lezer wordt meegevoerd van piazza’s in Italië naar de Malvern Hills in Engeland, van een flat in Londen naar een exclusief hotel in Hollywood, en ontmoet de meest uiteenlopende personages, van jonge dromers tot cafémuzikanten en uitgerangeerde sterren. De vijf verhalen zijn geestig, intiem en ingetogen en hebben als steeds terugkerend thema: onze behoefte aan romantiek, die ondanks ...