Bücher von Kazuo Ishiguro

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoRyder, a renowned pianist, arrives in a Central European city he cannot identify for a concert he cannot remember agreeing to give. But then as he traverses a landscape by turns eerie and comical - and always strangely malleable, as a dream might be - he comes steadily to realise he is facing the most crucial performance of his life. Ishiguro's extraordinary and original study of a man whose life has accelerated beyond his control was met on publication by consternation, vilification - and the highest praise.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me GoWinner of the Booker PrizeONE OF THE BBC'S '100 NOVELS THAT SHAPED OUR WORLD'A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House.In the summer of 1956, Stevens, the ageing butler of Darlington Hall, embarks on a leisurely holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and into his past.

The top ten bestseller from the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the DayShortlisted for the Man Booker PrizeIn one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoIn his highly acclaimed debut, 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 night 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.

AVAILABLE TO PREORDER NOWFrom the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love?

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, here is the universally acclaimed novelwinner of the Booker Prize and the basis for an award-winning film. This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England. Stevens, at the end of three decades of service at Darlington Hall, spending a day on a country drive, embarks as well on a journey through the past in an effort to reassure himself that he has served humanity by serving the "e;great gentleman,"e; Lord Darlington. But lurking in his memory are doubts about the true nature of Lord Darlington's "e;greatness,"e; and much graver doubts about the nature of his own life.

The Buried Giant. Vishukanij roman suchasnogo britans'kogo pis'mennika japons'kogo pohodzhennja Kadzuo ishiguro «Pohovanij veleten'» zanurju? chitacha v napivmifichnu atmosferu j istoriju rann'ogo Seredn'ovichchja. Chogo shukati ljudini: pravdi chi omani, zabutogo minulogo chi samotn'ogo majbutn'ogo, obludnogo primirennja chi krivavoji pomsti-vijni, rizk ob'ektivnosti chi vorozhbits'koji iljuziji? Ci pitannja postupovo ta povil'no viklubochujut'sja zi storinok romanu, a vidpovidi na nih, peregornuvshi ostannju storinku, musit' muzhn'o dati sam sobi kozhen okremij chitach. Vidpovidi boljuchi, jak porivi vitru sered visokih skel', i solodki, jak teplij pogljad najblizhchoji ljudini pislja zavershennja vsih sliv..

An Artist of the Floating World. Druga svitova vijna zabrala u slavetnogo hudozhnika Ono Masudzi sina i druzhinu. Mitec' postariv i vzhe ne maljue. Vin, mov privid, blukae «kvartalami nasolodi» svoeji molodosti, de vzhe nemae gejsh i ne chuti nathnennih golosiv jogo uchniv. Ono zanovo prozhivae svoju osobistu, chasom superechlivu istoriju. Edine, shho zalishilosja Ono zaraz, ? vidati zamizh dochku, ale zadlja c'ogo vin musit' zrektisja minulogo, v jakomu tak vazhko zrozumiti, de mezha mizh zradoju ta viddanistju i naskil'ki velika vidpovidal'nist' mitcja pered viklikami istoriji. Ta chi mozhlivo pereosmisliti spogadi i cherez zabuttja vidnajti shhastja? Chi koregue chas «pravil'nist'» vchinkiv ta dij i chi mozhe peretvoriti pravednika na zradnika, koli hitkij svit navkolo zminjuet'sja i zminjujut'sja jogo ideali?

Klara and the Sun. Klara sovsem novaja. S zarazitel'nym ljubopytstvom iz-za shirokogo okna vitriny ona vpityvaet v sebja okruzhajushhij mir ? sluchajnyh prohozhih, proezzhajushhie mashiny i, konechno, zhivitel'noe Solnce. Klara hochet uznat' i zapomnit' kak mozhno bol'she ? tak ona smozhet stat' luchshej Iskusstvennoj Podrugoj svoemu budushhemu podrostku. Ot togo, kto vyberet Klaru, budet zaviset' ee sud'ba. Chistyj, otchasti naivnyj vzgljad na real'nost', lish' slegka otlichajushhujusja ot nashej sobstvennoj, ? vot, chto darit novyj roman Kadzuo Isiguro. Kakovo jeto ? ljubit'? I mozhno li byt' chelovekom, esli ty ne sovsem chelovek? Istorija, rasskazannaja s obeskurazhivajushhej iskrennost'ju, zastavit vas po-novomu otvetit' na jeti voprosy.

Englische Literatur in Reclams Roter Reihe: das ist der englische Originaltext - ungekürzt und unbearbeitet mit Worterklärungen am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.Der Roman beginnt wie eine ganz normale Internatsgeschichte: Die drei Freunde Ruth, Kathy und Tommy gehen gemeinsam durch Dick und Dünn und erleben die Wirren der ersten Liebe. Doch bald wird klar, dass Hailsham keine gewöhnliche Schule ist. Die Schüler sind menschliche Klone, deren Körper zur Organspende herangezüchtet wurden. Gefühle haben sie dennoch, und die Aussicht, bald sterben zu müssen, stellt die Beziehung zwischen den drei Hauptfiguren auf eine harte Probe. Das Buch von Nobelpreisträger Kazuo Ishiguro, das 2010 verfilmt wurde, stellt die ganz großen Fragen nach Freundschaft, Verrat, Opferbereitschaft und Moral.Englische Lektüre: Niveau B2 - C1 (GER) Sprachen: Englisch, Deutsch

Ein großer Sportplatz, freundliche Klassenzimmer und getrennte Schlafsäle für Jungen und Mädchen - auf den ersten Blick scheint Hailsham ein ganz gewöhnliches englisches Internat zu sein. Aber die Lehrer, so engagiert und freundlich sie auch sind, heißen hier Aufseher, und sie lassen die Kinder früh spüren, dass sie für eine besondere Zukunft ausersehen sind. Dieses Gefühl hält Kathy, Ruth und Tommy durch alle Stürme der Pubertät und Verwirrungen der Liebe zusammen - bis es an der Zeit ist, ihrer wahren Bestimmung zu folgen.

British writer Kazuo Ishiguro won the 1989 Booker Prize for The Remains of the Day, which sold over a million copies in English alone and was the basis of a film starring Anthony Hopkins. Now When We Were Orphans, his extraordinary fifth novel, has been called his fullest achievement yet (The New York Times Book Review) and placed him again on the Booker shortlist. A complex, intelligent, subtle and restrained psychological novel built along the lines of a detective story, it confirms Ishiguro as one of the most important writers in English today. Londons Sunday Times said: You seldom read a novel that so convinces you it is extending the possibilities of fiction.The novel takes us to Shanghai in the late 1930s, with English detective Christopher Banks bent on solving the mystery that has plagued him all his life: the disappearance of his parents when he was eight. By his own account, he is now a celebrated gentleman sleuth, the toast of London society. But as we learn, he is also a solitary figure, his career built on an obsession. Believing his parents may still be held captive, he longs to put right as an adult what he was powerless to change as a child, when he played at being Sherlock Holmes before both his parents vanished and he was sent to England to be raised by an aunt. Banks father was involved in the importation of opium, and solving the mystery means finding that his boyhood was not the innocent, enchanted world he has cherished in memory. The Shanghai he revisits is in the throes of the SinoJapanese war, an apocalyptic nightmare; he sees the horror of the slums surrounding the international community in a dreamscape worthy of Borges (The Independent). We think that if we can only put something right that went a bit awry, then our lives would be healed and the world would be healed, says Ishiguro of the illusion under which his hero suffers. It becomes increasingly clear that Banks is not to be trusted as a narrator. The stiff, elegant voice grows more hysterical, his vision more feverish, as he comes closer to the truth. Like Ryder of The Unconsoled, Ishiguros previous novel, Banks is trapped in his boyhood fantasy, and he follows his obsession at the cost of personal happiness. Other characters appear as projections of his fears and desires. All Ishiguros novels concern themselves with the past, the consequences of denying it and the unreliability of memory.It is from Ishiguros own family history that the novel takes its setting. Though his family is Japanese, Ishiguros father was born in Shanghais international community in 1920; his grandfather was sent there to set up a Chinese branch of Toyota, then a textile company. My father has old pictures of the first Mr. Toyota driving his Rolls-Royce down the Bund. When the Japanese invaded in 1937, the fighting left the international commune a ghetto, and his family moved back to Nagasaki.When We Were Orphans raises the bar for the literary mystery. Though more complex than much of Ishiguros earlier work, which has led to mixed reactions, it was published internationally (his work has been published in 28 languages) and was a New York Times bestseller.

By the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoShortlisted for the Booker PrizeEngland, the 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 inter-war London and Shanghai, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me GoIn Nocturnes, Kazuo Ishiguro explores the ideas of love, music and the passing of time. From the piazzas of Italy 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 founder and youthful hope recedes.