About the author
Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-born British novelist and Nobel laureate. His controlled first-person narrators speak carefully around memory, duty, self-deception, and regret, allowing the reader to see what the voice cannot yet admit.
He narrates with perfect composure, but the omissions and corrections in his account say as much as the events he describes. Ishiguro never forces a confession from him. Regret emerges in the space between Stevens's careful explanations and what the reader can see he has lost.
Where to start
Start with The Remains of the Day. An English butler takes a rare holiday and begins to reconsider the life he called service.
