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Nocturnes
Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Hardcover, 240 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: September 22, 2009
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-0-307-27102-0 (0-307-27102-1)

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character.

A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man... Read more >

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Never Let Me Go

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Trade Paperback, 304 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: March 14, 2006
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-7877-6 (1-4000-7877-6)

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.

As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >

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Never Let Me Go

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Hardcover, 304 pages
Publisher: Knopf
On Sale: April 5, 2005
Price: $25.00
ISBN: 978-1-4000-4339-2 (1-4000-4339-5)

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.

As a child, Kathy—now thirty-one years old—lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where... Read more >

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When We Were Orphans
A Novel
Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Trade Paperback, 352 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 30, 2001
Price: $15.00
ISBN: 978-0-375-72440-4 (0-375-72440-0)

When We Were Orphans will linger in the mind as an often fascinating, imaginative work of surpassing intelligence and taste.”—Joyce Carol Oates, Times Literary Supplement

From the Booker Prize-winning, bestselling author of Remains of the Day comes this stunning work of soaring imagination.

Renowned London dectective Christopher Banks was born in Shanghai... Read more >
Also available as an eBook.

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The Unconsoled

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Trade Paperback, 544 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: October 1, 1996
Price: $15.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73587-8 (0-679-73587-9)

The Unconsoled is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the... Read more >

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A Pale View of Hills

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Trade Paperback, 192 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.00
ISBN: 978-0-679-72267-0 (0-679-72267-X)

The highly acclaimed first novel by the author of The Remains of the Day and Artist of the Floating World, A Pale View of Hills is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her eldest daughter. In a story where... Read more >

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The Remains of the Day

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Trade Paperback, 256 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 12, 1990
Price: $14.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-73172-6 (0-679-73172-5)

Winner of the Booker Prize

The Remains of the Day is a profoundly compelling portrait of the perfect English butler and his fading, insular world in postwar England. At the end of his three decades of service at Darlington Hall, Stevens embarks on a country drive, during which he looks back over... Read more >

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An Artist of the Floating World

Written by Kazuo Ishiguro


Format: Trade Paperback, 208 pages
Publisher: Vintage
On Sale: September 19, 1989
Price: $13.95
ISBN: 978-0-679-72266-3 (0-679-72266-1)

Ono, an artist who had put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II, struggles through the devastation of that war. His memories of his youth and of the "floating world"--the nocturnal realm of pleasure, entertainment, and drink--offer him both escape and redemption... Read more >
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