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Angleterre, haut Moyen Âge. Dans un pays en proie à toutes sortes de superstitions vivent Axl et Beatrice. Leur amour a résisté aux années, mais leurs souvenirs sont aussi brumeux que les montagnes e

Nagasaki, Anfang der Fünfzigerjahre: Die Zerstörungen des Krieges sind der Stadt immer noch anzusehen, doch zwischen den Ruinen entstehen bereits neue, moderne Hochhäuser. In einem von diesen lebt Etsuko, zusammen mit ihrem Mann Jiro. Während dieser verbittert versucht Karriere zu machen, kümmert sich Etsuko um den Haushalt. Unterhaltung hat sie wenig, oft steht sie am Fenster und beobachtet, wie sich die Welt um sie herum verändert. Eines Tages zieht eine Frau in die Holzhütte unten am Fluss ein, zusammen mit ihrer kleinen Tochter. Etsuko freundet sich mit den beiden an und muss bald feststellen, wie ihre Nachbarin über ihrem Traum vom Glück mit einem amerikanischen Soldaten mehr und mehr ihr Kind vergisst.

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.

"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"". "

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 da

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

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 desaparició dels seus pares a Xa

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 escrupulosament protegits del món de fora, i se'ls educava

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.

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.