Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.

The Remains of the Day won the 1989 Booker Prize and cemented Kazuo Ishiguro's place as one of the world's greatest writers. David Lodge, chairman of the judges in 1989, said, it's "a cunningly structured and beautifully paced performance". This is a haunting evocation of lost causes and lost love, and an elegy for England at a time of acute change. Ishiguro's work has been translated into more than forty languages and has sold millions of copies worldwide.Stevens, the long-serving butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the countryside, but also into his own past. Reflecting on his years of service, he must re-examine his life in the face of changing Britain, and question whether his dignity and properness have come at a greater cost to himself.

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 and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.If you enjoyed Never Let Me Go, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.

<p><b>*The #1 <i>Sunday Times</i> Bestseller*<br>*Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021*<br>*A Barack Obama Summer Reading Pick*</b><br><br><b><br>'A delicate, haunting story' <i>The Washington Post</i><br>'This is a novel for fans of <i>Never Let Me Go . . .</i> tender, touching and true.' <i>The Times</i></b><br><br><i>'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'</i><br><br>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 street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.<br><br>In <i>Klara and The Sun</i>, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?</p>

When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he's given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison. But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it. In Kazuo Ishiguro's hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him; the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realises the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by his doing so will civilisation be saved from the approaching catastrophe. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, When We Were Orphans is a story of memory, intrigue and the need to return; of a childhood vision of the world surviving deep into adulthood, indelibly shaping and distorting a person's life. If you enjoyed When We Were Orphans, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.

Magisk resa genom 500-talets England. Det är 500-tal. Romarna försvann för längesedan, och det land som en gång ska komma att bli England sveps sakta men säkert in i ett slags kollektiv minnesförlust som kallas ”dimman”. I landskapet rör sig människor på obestämd flykt; föräldrar söker sina barn, barn söker sina föräldrar. Men det är också en värld, som Ishiguro skildrar den, befolkad av monster och demoner. Och mitt i allt detta befinner sig Axl och Beatrice, ett åldrat par som ger sig ut på en lång och farofylld resa för att hitta sin son, sedan många år försvunnen. Kazuo Ishiguros nya roman, den första på tio år, är en symbolladdad, svart och mystisk saga. Ishiguro leker med genrer och överskrider dem. Begravd jätte är äventyrsberättelse, pikareskroman, fantasy – allt på en och samma gång. Och, på ett djupare plan, är den också en betraktelse över – och kanske ifrågasättande av – myternas och det kollektiva minnets betydelse. "... både en diskret fredsappell och en kärleksroman om att hålla ihop i åldrandets och glömskans alltmer obegripliga värld ... vackert och storslaget" Kristoffer Leandoer, SvD

'It was our third time playing the Godfather theme since lunch...' In a sublime short story collection, Kazuo Ishiguro explores ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy to the Malvern Hills, a London flat to the 'hush-hush floor' of an exclusive Hollywood hotel, the characters we encounter range from young dreamers to cafe musicians to faded stars, all of them at some moment of reckoning. Gentle, intimate and witty, this quintet is marked by a haunting theme: the struggle to keep alive a sense of life's romance, even as one gets older, relationships flounder and youthful hopes recede. If you enjoyed Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, you might also like Ishiguro's The Remains of the Day, now available in Faber Modern Classics.

The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning 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 Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

In a post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven’t seen for years. And because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him.

But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date. Less

Det er 1948. Japan er i ferd med å gjenoppbygge sine byer etter krigens ødeleggelser. Folket prøver å legge nederlaget bak seg og se framover. Den berømte kunstneren, Masuji Ono, fyller dagene med hagearbeid, husreparasjoner, på sine to voksne døtre og sitt barnebarn. Og kveldene tilbringer han med gamle kjente på små lanterne-belyste barer. Men når minnene fra fortiden, fra et liv og en karriære dypt berørt av den japanske militarismen, kontinuerlig dukker opp, bringer det mørke skyer over hans rolige pensjonisttilværelse.