Bøger af Kazuo Ishiguro

"Klara og solen" er Kazuo Ishiguros første roman efter at han modtog Nobelprisen i litteratur.Det er historien om Klara, en Kunstig Ven, med en usædvanlig observationsevne, som fra sin plads bag butiksruden observerer adfærden hos de kunder, der kommer ind for at se på varerne, men også er ualmindelig opmærksom på de mennesker, der går forbi på fortovet udenfor.  Hun håber til stadighed på at få sig en menneskelig ejer, at en kunde skal vælge hende, men da det viser sig, at dette sandsynligvis vil forandre Klaras liv for altid, tager hun det som en advarsel mod at fæste alt for stor lid til menneskers løfter. "Klara og solen" er en stærkt bevægende og overrumplende roman om, hvad det vil sige at elske et andet menneske.I begrundelsen for Nobelprisen i 2017 blev Ishiguros romaner beskrevet som ”romaner med en stor følelsesmæssig virkning, som afdækker afgrunden under vores illusoriske forbundethed med omverdenen.” 

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?

Kathy, Tommy og Ruth lever et beskyttet liv på kostskolen Hailsham i England, hvor de bliver opdraget til at tro, at de er noget særligt. Men efter opholdet udvikler de søgende børn sig til forvirrede voksne - for hvad var egentlig grunden til, at de i sin tid blev sendt på kostskole? Sandheden går langsomt op for dem i denne foruroligende og gribende historie.

Kazuo Ishiguros roman Den begravede kæmpe handler om et aldrende ægtepar, der i tiden efter Kong Arthurs død sætter ud på en lang rejse til fods for at opsøge deres søn, som de ikke har set længe, men undervejs ændrer rejsens mål sig og bliver i lige så høj grad en rejse for at afdække grunden til den mystiske tåge, der hærger landet. Det er en både grusom og bevægende historie om hukommelsestab, kærlig, hævn og krig.

En sommerdag i 1956 tager Stevens, en ældre men formfuldendt engelsk butler, af sted på en af sit livs sjældne ferier, en biltur gennem Vestengland. Men hans rejsestemning bliver hele tiden forstyrret af minder om gamle dage på godset Darlington Hall, om herskabet dér og om hans venskab med kollegaen Miss Kenton. For første gang nogen sinde sker det, at Stevens kommer til at tænke på, om han har handlet rigtigt ved at gøre og mene og sige, som han fik besked på. Det var f.eks. det med herskabets politiske engagement i trediverne. Og hvordan har han egentlig selv virket på sine omgivelser.

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.

Christopher Banks vokser op i Shanghai i begyndelsen af det tyvende århundrede. Da Christopher endnu er barn forsvinder faren, som er indblandet i opiumshandel, og siden også moren sporløst. Christopher sendes som forældreløs over til sin tante i London, hvor han vokser op og bliver uddannet på Cambridge og senere detektiv. I 1937 beslutter han sig for at rejse tilbage til det krigshærgede Shanghai for endelig at finde ud af, hvad der i sin tid skete under hans forældres mystiske forsvinden.

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.

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.

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.

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 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them specialand how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is modern classic.

Informationen zum Titel:Die junge Kathy berichtet über ihr Leben an einer Schule, die praktisch als Organreservoir dient. Alle Schüler/-innen dort sind Klone, die in die Welt gesetzt wurden, um später lebenswichtige Organe zu spenden. Die Schüler/-innen werden nur nach und nach mit den schrecklichen Wahrheiten konfrontiert, die ihre Leben vorbestimmen, stets in einem Alter, in dem sie eigentlich nicht begreifen können, was es bedeutet.Abiturthemen: Crime and Punishment; Science and Technology; Utopia and Dystopia und Literary Visions of the FutureNutzen Sie für diese Lektüre unsere passende Handreichung für den Unterricht. Filtern Sie dazu nach der Produktart "Handreichung".Informationen zur Reihenausgabe:Lesen macht Spaß - umso mehr mit Lektüren, die Ihre Schüler/-innen auch allein zu Hause bewältigen können. Mit diesem Literaturangebot ist das problemlos möglich.Die ungekürzten Originaltexte eignen sich für die Jahrgangsstufen 10 bis 13 und enthalten Annotationen zu schwierigen Wörtern. Zu jedem Band gibt es eine Handreichung bzw. ein englischsprachiges Teacher's Manual mit Kopiervorlagen, Klausurvorschlägen und zum Teil Audio-CDs.Interpretationshilfen als Zusatzangebot für Schüler/-innenZu einigen Lektüren der Cornelsen Senior English Library gibt es ergänzende Interpretationshilfen mitwichtigen Informationen zum Werk,Kurzbiographien der Autorinnen und Autoren,Wortschatzhilfen und Auflistungen zentraler Zitate sowieeiner Musterklausur.

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.

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 .

Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We crossed Europe in the Rain collects the sixteen song lyrics he wrote for world-renowned American singer, Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner Jim Tomlinson.

As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships, mysterious rules, and 'guardians' who constantly reminded the students how special they were. Now thirty-one, Kathy looks back on their shared past and tells how she and her friends gradually came to understand the shocking reason for the careful nurturing they had received. An affecting meditation on friendship, love and mortality.

Nobelpreisträger Kazuo Ishiguro betrachtet unsere sich rasch verändernde Welt aus der Sicht einer einzigartigen Erzählerin - Klara - einer Maschine, die zugleich menschlich ist. Als sie Teil der Menschheit wird, wird von ihr erwartet, dass sie sich den riesigen Problemen ihrer neuen Familie stellt und sie sogar löst - deren Herausforderungen werden zu Klaras Herausforderungen. Wo liegen die Grenzen künstlicher Intelligenz? Kann eine Maschine lieben (und geliebt werden)? Ein Buch, das berührt und herausfordert.

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date. "From the Hardcover edition.

"First included in Everyman's Library, 2023"--Title page verso.

Stevens is a perfect English butler who tries to give his narrow existence form and meaning through the self-effacing, almost mystical practice of his profession. In a career that spans the second World War, Stevens is oblivious to the real life that goes on around him--oblivious, for instance, to the fact that his aristocrat employer is a Nazi sympathizer. Still, there are even larger matters at stake here--namely, Stevens's own ability to allow some bit of life-affirming love into his tightly repressed existence.

Abiturpflichtlektüre in Niedersachsen (schriftliche Abiturprüfung 2020 und 2021)Never Let Me Go ist ein Roman des britischen Autors Kazuo Ishiguro aus dem Jahr 2005. Das Buch wurde 2005 für den höchsten britischen Buchpreis, den Booker Prize (Shortlist), nominiert. Zudem erhielt es Nominierungen für den Arthur C. Clarke Award (2006) und den National Book Critics Circle Award (2005). Time wählte es zum besten Roman des Jahres 2005 und nahm es in seine Liste der hundert besten englischsprachigen Romane von 1923 bis 2005 auf. 2015 wählten 82 internationale Literaturkritiker und -wissenschaftler den Roman zu einem der bedeutendsten britischen Romane.Über den Roman:Die Geschichte beginnt in Hailsham, einem Internat, und wird von Kathy H. erzählt, die noch einmal ihre Erinnerungen durchlebt. Hailsham liegt in South Essex (England), in einer schönen Landschaft und ist abgeschnitten von der Außenwelt. Kathy, ihre besten Freunde Ruth und Tommy sowie ihre Mitschüler wachsen in Hailsham auf und scheinen eine behütete Kindheit zu haben. Sie gehen in eine scheinbar normale Schule, doch heißen bei ihnen die Unterrichtenden nicht Lehrer, sondern Aufseher, und schon früh wird ihnen gesagt, dass sie etwas Besonderes seien, anders sind als die Menschen "draußen". Alle Hailsham-Kollegiaten haben eine Bestimmung: Ihre Existenz dient allein dem Zweck, sich bis zum Tode Organe entnehmen zu lassen, damit andere, die sie in Auftrag gegeben haben, weiterleben können.Diese Ausgabe enthält fundierte Lesehilfen, ausführliche Annotationen und zahlreiche Hintergrundinformationen.Zu dieser Textausgabe gibt es das EinFach Englisch Unterrichtsmodell ISBN 978-3-14-041310-7

From the universally acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day comes a mesmerizing novel of completely unexpected mood and matter--a seamless, fictional universe, both wholly unrecognizable and familiar. When the public, day-to-day reality of a renowned pianist takes on a life of its own, he finds himself traversing landscapes that are by turns eerie, comical, and strangely malleable.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory. In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.

From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful. With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor. Here is a fragile, once famous singer, turning his back on the one thing he loves; a music junky with little else to offer his friends but opinion; a songwriter who inadvertently breaks up a marriage; a jazz musician who thinks the answer to his career lies in changing his physical appearance; and a young cellist whose tutor has devised a remarkable way to foster his talent. For each, music is a central part of their lives and, in one way or another, delivers them to an epiphany.

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.

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.