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.

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?

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.

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? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.

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.

Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017Shortlisted for the Booker Prize 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 two grown daughters and his grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in quiet lantern-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 serenity.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

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?

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..

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.

In den 1930er-Jahren hat der Maler Masuji Ono seine Kunst in den Dienst der japanischen Expansionspolitik gestellt. Jetzt, nach dem Krieg, ist sein damaliger Patriotismus anrüchig geworden, und als seine Tochter heiraten will, wird seine politische Vergangenheit zur Belastung für die Familie. Seine Lebensbeichte offenbart ein heilloses Geflecht von Schuld und Irrtum und ist ein Läuterungsprozess, nach dem er nicht mehr derselbe sein wird wie zuvor. Kazuo Ishiguros eindringlicher, meisterhaft erzählter Roman über einen Künstler, der mit seiner Vergangenheit ringt, lässt das vom Krieg zerrüttete Japan der Nachkriegszeit wieder aufleben, ein Land im Umbruch, in dem verschiedene Lebensweisen um die Vorherrschaft kämpfen und ein Volk zwischen Tradition und Moderne nach einem neuen Lebenssinn sucht.

Der berühmte Pianist Ryder ist auf Konzertreise. Bei seiner Ankunft im Hotel möchte er sich am liebsten sofort zurückziehen, wird aber vom Hotelpagen in Beschlag genommen, der ihn um einen ungewöhnlich persönlichen Gefallen bittet. Ryder sagt zu und macht daraufhin eine ganze Reihe sonderbarer Bekanntschaften, die ihn in tiefe Verwirrung stürzen, lauter Ungetröstete, die sich von dem Künstler Hilfe oder gar Erlösung erhoffen. Ryder versucht, auf jeden Einzelnen einzugehen und merkt zu spät, dass er sich dabei selbst immer mehr abhanden kommt.

Britannien im 5. Jahrhundert: Nach erbitterten Kriegen zwischen den Volksstämmen der Briten und Angelsachsen ist das Land verwüstet. Axl und Beatrice sind seit vielen Jahren ein Paar. In ihrem Dorf gelten sie als Außenseiter, und man gibt ihnen deutlich zu verstehen, dass sie eine Belastung für die Gemeinschaft sind. Also verlassen sie ihre Heimat, in der Hoffnung, ihren Sohn zu finden, den sie seit langer Zeit nicht mehr gesehen haben. Ihre Reise ist voller überraschender Begegnungen und Gefahren, und bald ahnen sie, dass in ihrem Land eine Veränderung heraufzieht, die alles aus dem Gleichgewicht bringen wird, sogar ihre Beziehung.

England in den Dreißigerjahren: Ganz London schwärmt von Christopher Banks und seinen Erfolgen. Es gibt nur einen Fall, den der Meisterdetektiv bisher nicht aufklären konnte: Das mysteriöse Verschwinden seiner Eltern in Shanghai, der Stadt seiner Kindheit. Beide waren in den Opiumhandel verstrickt: der Vater als Profiteur, die Mutter als erklärte Gegnerin. Als die Erinnerungen an die Zeit, als er Waise wurde, Banks immer häufiger quälen, beschließt er, sich auf den Weg nach Shanghai zu machen, um endlich das größte Rätsel seines Lebens zu lösen.

Eine Liebeserklärung an die Musik und wie sie es vermag, Menschen zueinander zu führen, Enttäuschungen zu überwinden und menschliche Schwächen zu verzeihen. Ein betörender Erzählzyklus, der auf eindrucksvolle Weise die Schicksale seiner Figuren mit ihrer Liebe zur Musik verknüpft.

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

Ishiguros Roman beschreibt - aus Sicht des Butlers Mr. Stevens - die Geschehnisse auf dem englischen Landsitz Darlington Hall in der Zeit zwischen den Weltkriegen: Durch die politischen Ambitionen des Hausherren, der eine Annäherung an Nazi-Deutschland sucht und internationale Prominenz aus Adel und Politik um sich schart, erlebt Stevens Weltgeschichte quasi »von unten«. Der Roman erhielt 1990 den Booker Prize und wurde 1993 mit Anthony Hopkins und Emma Thompson eindrucksvoll verfilmt (dt. Was vom Tage übrig blieb).Ungekürzte und unbearbeitete Textausgabe in der Originalsprache, mit Übersetzungen schwieriger Wörter am Fuß jeder Seite, Nachwort und Literaturhinweisen.

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.

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.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "e;floating world"e;the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drinkoffer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.

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.

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.