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"La prima settimana di liberta dellirreprensibile maggiordomo inglese Stevens diventa occasione per ripensare la propria vita spesa al servizio di un gentiluomo moralmente discutibile. Stevens ha attraversato lesistenza spinto da un unico ideale: quello di rispettare una certa tradizione e di difenderla a dispetto degli altri e del tempo. Ma il viaggio in automobile verso la Cornovaglia lo costringe ben presto a rivedere il suo passato, cosi tra dubbi e ricordi dolorosi egli si accorge di aver vissuto come un soldato nelladempimento di un dovere astratto senza mai riuscire ad essere se stesso. Si puo cambiare improvvisamente vita e ricominciare daccapo? Da questo romanzo di Ishiguro, acclamato in Gran Bretagna e negli Stati Uniti e vincitore del prestigioso Booker Prize, nel 1993 il regista americano James Ivory ha tratto un famoso film con Anthony Hopkins ed Emma Thompson. "

"Kathy, Ruth e Tommy sono cresciuti in un collegio immerso nella campagna della provincia inglese. Sono stati educati amorevolmente, protetti dal mondo esterno e convinti di essere speciali. Ma qual e, di fatto, il motivo per cui sono li? E cosa li aspetta oltre il muro del collegio? Solo molti anni piu tardi, Kathy, ora una donna di trentun anni, si permette di cedere agli appelli della memoria. Quello che segue e la perturbante storia di come Kathy, Ruth e Tommy si avvicinino a poco a poco alla verita della loro infanzia apparentemente felice, e al futuro cui sono destinati. Un romanzo intenso e commovente dall'autore di ""Quel che resta del giorno"". "

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding her cities after the calamity of World War II, her people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated painter Masuji Ono fills his days attending to his garden, his house repairs, his two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet Iantern-lit bars. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past - to a life and a career deeply touched by the rise of Japanese militarism - a dark shadow begins to grow over his seren

Kath, Ruth et Tommy ont été élèves à Hailsham dans les années quatre-vingt-dix ; une école idyllique, nichée dans la campagne anglaise, où les enfants étaient protégés du monde extérieur et élevés dans l'idée qu'ils étaient des êtres à part, que leur bien-être personnel était essentiel, non seulement pour eux-mêmes, mais pour la société dans laquelle ils entreraient un jour. Mais pour quelles raisons les avait-on réunis là ? Bien des années plus tard, Kath s'autorise enfin à céder aux appels de la mémoire et tente de trouver un sens à leur passé commun. Avec Ruth et Tommy, elle prend peu à peu conscience que leur enfance apparemment heureuse n'a cessé de les hanter, au point de frelater leurs vies d'adultes. Kazuo Ishiguro traite de sujets qui nous touchent de près aujourd'hui : la perte de l'innocence, l'importance de la mémoire, ce qu'une personne est prête à donner, la valeur qu'elle accorde à autrui, la marque qu'elle pourra laisser. Ce roman vertigineux, porté par la grâce, raconte une histoire d'humanité, de conscience et d'amour dans l'Angleterre contemporaine. Ce chef-d'œuvre d'anticipation est appelé à devenir le classique de nos vies fragiles.

In a sublime story cycle, 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. Author Biography: Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Primio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize). He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.

Beautiful new paperback Faber Firsts edition to commemorate Faber's 80th Anniversary. In his highly acclaimed debut novel, A Pale View of Hills, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast. Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of six novels, A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Primio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), Never Let Me Go (2005, shortlisted for the MAN Booker Prize) and the recently published Nocturnes. He received an OBE for Services to Literature in 1995, and the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres in 1998.

Londres, anys trenta. Christopher Banks s'ha convertit en un detectiu mundialment famós, però sempre l'ha turmentat un cas que no ha pogut resoldre mai: la misteriosa desaparicio dels seus pares a Xangai quan era un nen. A Londres sempre ha viscut bé, però no s'ha adpatat mai a la vida anglesa. En la vigília de la Segona Guerra Mundial, Banks creu que ha arribat el moment de tornar a Xangai, on va viure durant la infantesa, per treure l'entrellat del cas més important de la seva vida i poder reconstruir tot allò que va perdre.

Un excepcional libro de relatos escritos co pano de fondo do luscofusco e o resón de melodías musicais memorables. Kazuo Ishiguro propón a lectores e lectoras un libro de relatos escritos seguindo o leit motiv da música. Un quinteto narrativo que desenvolve, en diferentes rexistros e sonoridades, un tema obsesivo: como manter acesa certa concepción romántica da vida mesmo cando, cos anos, as ilusións da mocidade desaparecen. Nocturnos, publicado en inglés en 2009, foi saudado moi favorablemente por críticos anglosaxóns do prestixio de Frank Kermode. Ishiguro explora neste libro as atomosferas creadas ao son de pezas musicais, nestes cinco relatos debuxa as relacións entre o amor, o paso do tempo e a música. Os seus personaxes son mozos soñadores, músicos de café e estrelas do espectáculo en decadencia, homes e mulleres en busca das ilusións perdidas e todos eles mergullados no ambiente creado pola música e a luz do serán.

Katsu Ishiguru is a Japanese-English author born in 1954. The Remains Of The Day is one of the most highly-regarded post-war British novels, the work was awarded the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989. Set in the late 1930's, the book tells the story of an aging, proudly subservient, English butler working at Darlington Hall. At the beginning of the story he is encouraged to take a much needed vacation by his employer, Mr. Farraday, who believes the butler needs a break from his duties. The book spans his one week trip to visit Miss Kenton, who was his former colleague. The book involves a mainly stream-of-consciousness moral inventory of Stevens' life and examines Lord Darlington's connections to the Germans and how he helped them throughout the story. This large and stunningly brilliant tale captures an era that prized decorum above truth with hazardous results.

This is an extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. 'You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay...' The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

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.

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. Moving between London and Shanghai of the inter-war years, WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return. When 9-year-old Christopher Banks's father--a British businessman involved in the opium trade--disappears from the family home in Shanghai, the boy and his friend Akira play at being detectives: 'Until in the end, after the chases, fist-fights and gun-battles around the warren-like alleys of the Chinese districts, whatever our variations and elaborations, our narratives would always conclude with a magnificent ceremony held in Jessfield Park, a ceremony that would see us, one after another, step out onto a specially erected stage ... to greet the vast cheering crowds.' But Christopher's mother also disappears, and he is sent to live in England, where he grows up in the years between the world wars to become, he claims, a famous detective. His family's fate continues to haunt him, however, and he sifts through his memories to try to make sense of his loss. Finally, in the late 1930s, he returns to Shanghai to solve the most important case of his life. But as Christopher pursues his investigation, the boundaries between fact and fantasy begin to evaporate. Is the Japanese soldier he meets really Akira? Are his parents really being held in a house in the Chinese district? And who is Mr. Grayson, the British official who seems to be planning an important celebration? 'My first question, sir, before anything else, is if you're happy with the choice of Jessfield Park for the ceremony? We will, you see, require substantial space.'

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there? It is only years later that Kathy, now aged 31, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, slowly come to face the truth about their seemingly happy childhoods - and about their futures. Never Let Me Go is a uniquely moving novel, charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of our lives. All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham, an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, Never Let Me Go, is a masterpiece of indirection. Like the students of Hailsham, readers are 'told but not told' what is going on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth about these children on their own.

Kazuo Ishiguro ha rebut del Sunday Times l’elogi d’haver «eixamplat les possiblitats de la ficció». A No em deixis mai ha forjat una altra història singular —una història d’amor, de pèrdua i de veritats ocultes— que s’inclou entre les seves millors obres. La Kathy, la Ruth i en Tommy eren alumnes de Hailsham, una idíl·lica institució docent situada en ple camp anglès. Els estudiants hi vivien escrupolosament protegits del món de fora, i se’ls educava en el convenciment que eren especials i que la seva integritat física era fonamental. Però ¿per què hi eren en realitat?Han de transcórrer anys perquè la Kathy, que ja en té 31, es decideixi finalment a conjurar el passat. El que n’emergeix és la captivadora història de com la Kathy, la Ruth i en Tommy van descobrint la veritat sobre la seva infància aparentment feliç... i sobre el seu futur.No em deixis mai és una novel·la especialment commovedora, carregada d’un profund sentiment sobre la fragilitat de la vida.

In his, highly acclaimed debut, A PALE VIEW OF HILLS, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. Retreating into the past, she finds herself reliving one particular hot summer in Nagasaki, when she and her friends struggled to rebuild their lives after the war. But then as she recalls her strange friendship with Sachiko - a wealthy woman reduced to vagrancy - the memories take on a disturbing cast.