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Born in Shanghai, Banks was orphaned at the age of nine after the separate disappearances of his parents. Now, twenty years later, he is a celebrated figure in London society; yet the investigative expertise that made him famous has done little to reveal the...

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...

Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the...

The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues...

This is a collection of five stories focused on music and musicians; it reads like a concert, introducing each story as a movement, mixing it with the others and bringing them to a resounding close. The five stories exhibit ideas common to Ishiguro's work,...

Here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present are interchanged, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II....

The artist Masuji Ono besides devoting his art to the celebration of physical beauty, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Memories from youth and the "floating world" offer him escape and redemption....