Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels By Sebastian Groes, Barry Le

Kazuo IshiguroNew Critical Visions of the Novels\nAuthor(s): Sebastian Groes, Barry Lewis, Sean Matthews\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC, United Kingdom\nImprint: Red Globe Press\nISBN-13: 9780230232389, 978-0230232389\nSynopsis\nKazuo Ishiguro is one of the finest contemporary authors who possesses that increasingly rare distinction of being a writer who is both popular with the general reading public and well-respected within the academic community. Kazuo Ishiguro: New Critical Visions of the Novels presents eighteen fresh perspectives on the author's work that will appeal to those who read him for pleasure or for purposes of study.\n\nEstablished and rising critics reassess Ishiguro's works from the early 'Japanese' novels through to his short story cycle Nocturnes, paying particular attention to The Remains of the Day, The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans and Never Let Me Go. They address universal themes such as history, memory and mortality, but also pr.