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Stevens dient als Butler in Darlington Hall. Er sorgt für einen tadellosen Haushalt und ist die Verschwiegenheit in Person: Niemals würde er auch nur ein Wort über die merkwürdigen Vorgänge im Herrenhaus verlieren. Er stellt sein Leben voll und ganz in den Dienst seines Herrn. Auch die vorsichtigen Annäherungsversuche von Miss Kenton, der Haushälterin, weist er brüsk zurück. Viele Jahre lang lebt ergeben in seiner Welt, bis ihn eines Tages die Vergangenheit einholt. Das kritische Portrait einer von Klasse und Hierarchien geprägten Gesellschaft und eine bittersüße Liebesgeschichte, erzählt von einem, der seinen Stand nie hinterfragt und der nie auch nur geahnt hat, dass er liebte.

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.

Etsuko, a middle-aged Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwells on the recent suicide of her elder daughter, Keiko. Despite the efforts of her surviving daughter to distract her thoughts, Etsuko finds herself recalling a particular summer in Nagasaki after the bomb fell.

The Sun always has ways to reach us.'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.In Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly-changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

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Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, durante treinta años ha sido mayordomo de Darlington Hall. Lord Darlington murió hace tres años, y la propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. El mayordomo, por primera vez en su vida, hara un viaje. Su nuevo patron regresara por unas semanas a su pais, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo su coche que fuera de Lord Darlington para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens, en el antiguo, lento y señorial auto de sus patrones, cruzara durante dias Inglaterra rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall. Y jornada a jornada, Ishiguro desplegara ante el lector una novela perfecta de luces y claroscuros, de mascaras que apenas se deslizan para desvelar una realidad mucho mas amarga que los amables paisajes que el mayordomo deja atras. Porque Stevens averigua que Lord Darlington fue un miembro de la clase dirigente inglesa que se dejo seducir por el fascismo y conspiro activamente para conseguir una alianza entre Inglaterra y Alemania. Y descubre, y tambien el lector, que hay algo peor incluso que haber servido a un hombre indigno?

¿Qué ocurre cuando las personas a las que has dedicado los mejores esfuerzos, a quienes considerabas un modelo de excelencia, se revelan como unos cobardes indignos, y sus criterios de valor como una canallada? Estas son las preguntas que estan a punto de desenvolverse ante los ojos de Stevens, quien durante treinta años ha servido como mayordomo para lord Darlington. Corre el año 1956 y unas cuantas cosas han cambiado en la existencia rutinaria de Stevens: la Segunda Guerra Mundial empieza a quedar atras, lord Darlington ha muerto y el nuevo propietario de Darlington Hall, un estadounidense, le presta a su mayordomo el coche familiar para que se tome unas vacaciones. Stevens emprende un viaje (¡su primer viaje!) para encontrarse con la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de la casa, quizas su mejor amiga en el mundo. Al tiempo que su vida se le revela como una sucesion de experiencias vicarias Stevens va comprendiendo las oscuras intrigas que se cocian en Darlington Hall. Pero su entendimiento no parece dispuesto a asumir las responsabilidades sin antes interponer un sutil bosque de excusas y de justificaciones.Gonzalo TorneIlustracion de cubiertaGonzalo Goytisolo

Maiordomo perfektua da Stevens: itzal bat bezain isil eta diskretua, beti jaunaren esanetara, egoerarik larrienean ere lasai eta eraginkor. Jaun handien zerbitzari leial izatean datza haren handitasuna, eta hamarkada luzetan horretan jardun izanak ematen dizkio bere bizitzari zentzua eta harrotasuna. Aspaldi luzean ez bezala egun libre batzuk dituela eta, lankide izandako Kenton andereñoari bisita egitea erabakiko du, eta bere bizitzari errepasoa egiteko baliatuko du bidaia.Duela ia ehun urteko handiki ingelesen unibertsoa zehatz eta doi erretratatzearekin batera, bi mundu-gerren arteko une historikoari argi berria ematen dio Ishigurok, eta izaera konplexu baten azpildurak dotorezia eta ñabardura harrigarriz erakutsi, lanbidezko mirabetzak norainoko gogo-morrontza eragin dezakeen frogatuz, sentimenduei hoztasunez eusteak zenbateraino ekar dezakeen nortasunaren irentzea.Booker sari prestigiotsua eta mundu osoan aho batezko onespena lortu zituen eleberri honek, film baten bidez are ezagunago bilakatu zen gero, eta egilearen Nobel sariak biribildu du haren ospea. Orain euskaraz dasta dezakegu, Amaia Apalauza Ollok eta Iñigo Roque Eguzkitzak Zaitegi bekaren laguntzaz egindako itzulpen bikainari esker.

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.

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.

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.'