Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.
His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
His novels An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005) were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.
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.
Personally I love this book. What I'm not comfortable with is the description given in the rating. Instead of judgemental phrase like '推荐', I prefer something more personal like 'like it' or 'love it'. Now comes to the book. I have to admit, at first I ...
評分很多人大概会觉得跟克隆人有关的一定是科幻小说。 我并不认为这本书可以划入普遍意义上的科幻小说里。 虽然这本书是以未来为背景,但他所描写的日常生活细节与我们并无二样,充满了真实感,而且细腻的感情描写引人入胜。就像是不久以后,就像是几十年以后会发生的事情一样。 小...
評分石黑一雄笔调典雅平淡,剥洋葱喝凉白开一样慢慢地叙述这个不怎么离奇不怎么科幻不怎么让人激动的故事。对于我们这种看完以后被感伤得说不出话来的人,写在这里的东西也不能透露太多,一透露,半本书就索然无味了。 以他这个调调,你只消看两三章就会明白,不会有I...
評分只是因为姓氏的相同,村上春树与村上龙在日本文坛被称为“双村上”,但在中国读者心中村上春树的地位要高于村上龙很多。同样只是因为相似的背景,石黑一雄与拉什迪、奈保尔并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”,但石黑一雄的国际主义风格却完全看不出移民作家的痕迹。我一直觉得把...
細膩
评分一直偏愛移民作傢,他們像是石頭上生齣的花。生命的姿態往往在毀滅與拯救之間混淆不清。
评分knotted tension and buried anguish, a natural flow of poignancy.
评分慕名來讀。一開始很虛幻,一頭霧水。越往後越清晰。Ishiguro似乎總是在一段的最後鋪墊齣下文,但好多重磅情節卻輕描淡寫地一筆帶過。哥特式的文風,值得思考的主題。
评分"I keep thinking about this river somewhere, with the water moving really fast. And these two people in the water, trying to hold onto each other, holding on as hard as they can, but in the end it's just too much. The current's too strong. They've got to let go, drift apart. That's how it is with us."
本站所有內容均為互聯網搜索引擎提供的公開搜索信息,本站不存儲任何數據與內容,任何內容與數據均與本站無關,如有需要請聯繫相關搜索引擎包括但不限於百度,google,bing,sogou 等
© 2025 qciss.net All Rights Reserved. 小哈圖書下載中心 版权所有