Books: History happens elsewhere Kazuo Ishiguro is currently the most...

The Independent - London;  April 2, 2000 ;     700+ words ......historical novels reveal to us the protagonists of history, Ishiguro has repeatedly brought alive a far more enriching and...repercussions of history, instead of narrating history itself, Ishiguro has succeeded in exposing the thinness of the majority...sources of power lay elsewhere. In both these works, ...

Ishiguro fails to meet demands of `Orphans'

Chicago Sun-Times;  September 17, 2000 ;     700+ words ......draw these parallels between Ishiguro's best-known novel and his...occupies a distinct territory. Ishiguro, who was born in 1954, was...Unconsoled, as well as to Ishiguro's preoccupation with World War II. Though the novel...China he knew, the fantasy world of the International ...

`When We Were Orphans,' by Kazuo Ishiguro; Knopf.(The Dallas Morning News)

Knight Ridder/Tribune News Service;  November 22, 2000 ;     539 words ...Kazuo Ishiguro, the Japanese...is one of the world's most accomplished...who watches the world go by him, seemingly...Brilliantly, Ishiguro moves back and...wonderfully captured in Ishiguro's impeccable grammar...Morning News on the World Wide Web at http...

The Author's Life as A Salesman;Ishiguro, on Tour With No Time to Write

The Washington Post;  October 9, 1990 ;     700+ words ......months. Or even, in the case of Kazuo Ishiguro, years. His third novel, "The Remains...haven't written anything since 1988," Ishiguro says over a cup of miserable coffee in...like a politician running for office. Ishiguro has given five interviews to German journalists...

England's Top Fiction Prize to Ishiguro;`Remains of the Day' Wins Booker...

The Washington Post;  October 27, 1989 ;     612 words ......was awarded last night at a dinner in London to Kazuo Ishiguro for his third novel, "The Remains of the Day." Though...but universally admired." After receiving the prize, Ishiguro paid tribute to British writer Salman Rushdie, a former...was fitting that we should not turn our backs on him," Ishiguro ...

Ishiguro's eye is for what is trapped within

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  November 10, 1996 ;     700+ words ......the repressed butler from Ishiguro's acclaimed third novel...narrator, blithely unaware of the world falling apart around him...counterpart, according to Ishiguro. He says that after reading...An Artist of the Floating World." Stevens may be the saddest...people who found it difficult," ...

Ishiguro bites off a little too much

Chicago Sun-Times;  October 1, 2000 ;     700+ words ......Ishiguro. Knopf. $25. Kazuo Ishiguro has written an ambitious...these parallels between Ishiguro's best-known novel and his...occupies a distinct territory. Ishiguro, who was born in 1954, was...Unconsoled, as well as to Ishiguro's preoccupation with World War II. Its mood is ...

Taking off into the realm of metaphor: Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me...

Studies in the Humanities;  June 1, 2007 ;     700+ words ......many other writers who distrust and avoid interviews, Ishiguro has been willing to submit to a surprisingly large...costume drama in the Merchant/Ivory repertoire, convinced Ishiguro all the more that his novel was being misread as the...Remains of the Day that we begin to see the surfacing of Ishiguro's ...

Interview: Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his new book "When We Were Orphans"

NPR Weekend Edition - Sunday;  October 22, 2000 ;     700+ words ......in that era? Mr. ISHIGURO: Well, I was always...after the First World War, you know, because...inv--I mean, the world is coming apart...this better. Mr. ISHIGURO: Yes. Christopher...avert the Second World War. This seems...rather innocent world of childhood and...on page 117. Mr. ...

Profile: Kazuo Ishiguro: Master of detached passions Once his...

The Independent - London;  November 5, 2000 ;     700+ words ......the non-creative world can be rather limited...Check out Kazuo Ishiguro's CV, on the other...Artist Of The Floating World, prostitutes his...We Were Orphans, Ishiguro's new novel, an English...is the fact that Ishiguro's parents always...that time, life, the world came along and ...

FICTION; The donor party; In Kazuo Ishiguro's novel, life at an unusual...

Star Tribune (Minneapolis, MN);  April 10, 2005 ;     700+ words ......Zellar Special to the Star Tribune Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go is such a virtuoso...Prize-winning Remains of the Day. Like so many of Ishiguro's other works, Never Let Me Go is a narrative...foreboding, is immediately disorienting. Ishiguro lets this disorientation incubate through...

Like Lambs to Slaughter; Kazuo Ishiguro talks about his new novel, a...

Newsweek;  April 4, 2005 ;     700+ words ...Byline: Jeff Giles Years ago, Kazuo Ishiguro was giving a reading at a Barnes & Noble in New York...says with a laugh. It completely drowned out the event. Ishiguro couldn't help but think it was a noisy metaphor for the...literature weren't enough of an underdog, what makes Ishiguro such a deeply ...

Afloat between East and West Kazuo Ishiguro best known for his book The...

Evening Standard - London;  April 6, 2000 ;     700+ words ......imagination. I think I may have found the original for Ishiguro's delusional detective: Ishiguro himself. Twenty years ago the author-to-be and his...went round with this detective for a day," recalls Ishiguro (who, unlike all his narrators, has a reliable memory...detective fiction appears to be another ...

Braving a harsh new world; A dystopian tale of science and ethics

The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel;  April 10, 2005 ;     604 words ......lot is going on in Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth and latest novel...Mysterious? That's exactly Ishiguro's intent. The novel covers...creepy aura of the place. Ishiguro is very good at creating a child's world: the fantasies, the fears...is, as in the case of all Ishiguro's novels, an unreliable ...

The latest from 'Remains of the Day' author Kazuo Ishiguro

University Wire;  October 13, 2000 ;     508 words ......implied. This generation enveloped themselves in a what Ishiguro calls a "knowing escapism," taking comfort in delusional...to solve the mystery of his parents' disappearance. Ishiguro said that his goal in crafting his novel was to take...detective," trying desperately to cling to a vision of the world ...