![]() ![]() ![]() Kong perfectly captures the tenor of our times Issues arise through stories told by narrators who are not so much classically unreliable-that is, deliberately deceptive-as determined to make peace with the past. And that’s true even when that past is plainly horrific: the main characters in Never Let Me Go are clones, created to live their shortened lives as organ providers for “real” humans. Ishiguro’s fiction, graced by remarkably restrained and nuanced prose even in its most emotionally charged moments, always raises the question of what it means to be human. All of his seven previous novels have met with critical acclaim, while two- Remains of the Day, published in 1989, and 2005’s Never Let Me Go, both of which saw major film versions-became massive popular successes. ![]() There, Ishiguro grew up to become one of the most celebrated British novelists in history, winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017 and a knighthood two years later. Born in Nagasaki in 1954, the child of an atomic bomb survivor and a marine scientist, Kazuo Ishiguro moved to England when he was five, after his father was offered a research post at the U.K.’s National Institute of Oceanography. ![]()
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