New Ishiguro novel coming in March 2021

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, will be published by Faber & Faber on 2nd March 2021. Continue reading at 'The Bookseller'

[ The Bookseller | 2020-06-16 08:35:46 UTC ]

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Kazuo Ishiguro: ‘Some awful things have happened in the last year . . . but these are not uninteresting times’

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