Kazuo Ishiguro
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English
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Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental...
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Everyman's library volume 410
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English
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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English
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"England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in Old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Now, as the world lurches towards total war, Banks realizes that the time has come for him to return to the city of his childhood and at last solve the mystery - that only by doing so will civilization...
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Vintage Español
Pub. Date
2010.
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Español
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Hailsham aparenta ser un agradable internado inglés, lejos de las influencias de la gran ciudad. La escuela se ocupa bien de sus estudiantes, enseñándoles arte y literatura y todo lo necesario para que se conviertan en el tipo de persona que la sociedad espera. Pero, curiosamente, en Hailsham no se enseña nada sobre el mundo exterior, un mundo con el que casi todo contacto está prohibido. Dentro de Hailsham, Kathy y sus amigos Ruth y Tommy crecen...
6) Nocturnes
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Random House Audio
Pub. Date
[2009]
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English
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize–winning novel The Remains of the Day comes an inspired sequence of stories as affecting as it is beautiful.
With the clarity and precision that have become his trademarks, Kazuo Ishiguro interlocks five short pieces of fiction to create a world that resonates with emotion, heartbreak, and humor. Here is a fragile, once
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Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date
[2024]
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English
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"Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain collects the lyrics of sixteen songs he wrote for world-renowned American singer Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner, Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming together of the literary and musical worlds, the lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces. Further exploring the notion of collaboration...
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Vintage Español, una división de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2018.
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Español
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"Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, fue durante treinta años mayordomo de Lord Darlington, quien murió hace tres años, y su propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. Su nuevo patrón regresará por unas semanas a su país, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo el auto para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens se embarca en un viaje por el país rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall....
9) Living
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Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
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English
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The story of an ordinary man, reduced by years of oppressive office routine to a shadow existence, who at the eleventh hour makes a supreme effort to turn his dull life into something wonderful.
10) Klara y el sol
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Editorial Anagrama, S.A
Pub. Date
2021.
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Español
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale,...
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Polish
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"Rok 1948. Zniszczona Japonia przezywa czas gruntownych przewartosciowan. Z ruin powstaje nowy swiat i porzadek rzeczy. Emerytowany malarz Masuji Ono, ktory cale dnie poswieca prozaicznym czynnosciom -- pielegnacji ogrodu, naprawie domu, opiece nad wnukami -- nie potrafi uwolnic sie od przeszlosci. Kierowany wewnetrzna potrzeba wytacza sam sobie proces, w ktorym wytacza sam sobie proces, w ktorym jest jednoczesnie oskarzycielem, oskarzonym i sedzia....
14) Never let me go
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English
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Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together in the isolated boarding school called Hailsham, with a chilling secret. As children, Kathy is secretly in love with Tommy. Then she sees her best friend Ruth holding Tommy's hand, and is devastated. As adolescents, Tommy and Kathy form a deep connection, only to have Ruth shove them apart with her own romantic demands. As they prepare to leave the school, they learn of their true purpose:...
15) Okruchy dnia
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Polish
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"Stevens to kamerdyner idealny, stawiający ponad wszystko lojalność wobec chlebodawcy i perfekcyjne wypełnianie obowiązków. Właśnie temu podporządkowuje całe swoje życie. Po latach pracy w Darlington Hall, kiedy rezydencja jest już owiana złą sławą z powodu pronazistowskich sympatii jej właściciela, Stevens wybiera się w podróż, aby namówić do powrotu dawną gospodynię, pannę Kenton. Przemierzając Anglię, wspomina przeszłość...
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Panorama de narrativas volume 765
Publisher
Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
Español
17) Niepocieszony
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Albatros
Language
Polish
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"Jedna z ważniejszych powieści zdobywcy Literackiego Nobla, Laureata Nagrody Bookera, w 2023 roku nominowanego do Oscara za scenariusz filmu Living. Ironiczny portret oderwanego od świata artysty. Groteska i absurd w kafkowskim stylu. Atmosfera kojarząca się z Alicją w Krainie Czarów, a czasami ze Strefą mroku. Ryder, światowej sławy pianista, przybywa do nienazwanego miasta w Europie Centralnej. Ma dać koncert w tutejszej filharmonii,...
18) Klara i solnt͡se
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Publisher
Inspiria
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Russian
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From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale,...
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Series
Hayakawa epi bunko volume 91
Publisher
Hayakawa Shobō
Pub. Date
2017.
Language
日本語
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"An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo...