![]() “I just couldn’t get a story to fit the questions I wanted to deal with.” Those questions were of a different order from the ones he asked in his earlier books. “I couldn’t get started,” he says, speaking by phone from his home in London. He won the Whitbread prize for his second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, and his third, The Remains of the Day, won him the Booker and was made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.īut it’s been 10 years since his last novel, the stunning Never Let Me Go, which also became a movie. But when he switched to writing, success came rapidly. Ishiguro’s first ambition was to be a singer-songwriter, a career at which he failed comprehensively. Ishiguro was born in Japan, but his family emigrated to England when he was 5, after his father took a job there as an oceanographer. Ishiguro himself is a surprisingly warm and funny conversationalist–surprisingly given the persistent strain of existential bleakness that runs through his work, and his prose style, which tends to eschew humor and showy cleverness in favor of a direct, plainspoken tone. “I’m going to write a very indoors book next time. “They take photographs outside in the English winter, in some kind of heath or something like that,” he says. ![]() Photographers like to put him there because it makes him look thoughtful and profound, and also because, in fairness, a lot of his new book The Buried Giant does take place in cold wet fields. Kazuo Ishiguro has spent a lot of time in cold wet fields today. ![]()
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