Comments on: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

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10 out 100 out of 1001 Books YMRBYD Challenge | Books of Mee — Sun, 24 May 2009 11:25:32 +0000

[...] is my list: [01-10] #1 Never Let Me Go – Kazuo Ishiguro read 12/05/08 (review) [11-20] #19 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time – Mark Haddon read 01/07/08 [...]

By: mee

mee — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:38:31 +0000

Aah, a Japanese lit fan you are ;). He did write a couple of books with topics surrounding Japan though: A Pale View of Hills and Artist of the Floating World. You might want to check those books (I will at some points. I’ve decided that I quite like his books).

By: mrdes

mrdes — Tue, 13 May 2008 13:23:18 +0000

Precisely. You should be at Kinokunyi when it used to trumpet him as a Japanese writer…no way I consider him a Japanese writer. In other words, I read the novel thinking he was one, and felt cheated:P

By: mee

mee — Tue, 13 May 2008 02:25:37 +0000

Apart from his name and his country of birth, he's nothing Japanese. He grew up in England since 5, a British citizen, and writes in English (In 'Orphan' his style is very British). So I don't consider Ishiguro as Japanese, nor his books as Japanese literature. More in wiki

By: mrdes

mrdes — Mon, 12 May 2008 15:58:30 +0000

This is the only novel by Ishiguro that I read. What irked me was you couldn’t tell it was written by a Japanese. Though, I like the idea behind “Never let me go”. How it was a song played when Kathy danced with a imaginary baby in arms…