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A surrealistic novel on a man who finds himself in a strange city, not knowing what he is doing there, but everyone seems to know him. What is more, he must be important because people ask him for favors. As he goes from encounter to encounter, the man discovers himself.
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Prestige, contemporary, open-ended and contemplative.
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
- resolvedopen-ended
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 1988
- Pages
- 544
- Publisher
- Anagrama, Knopf Canada, Vintage International
- Editions
- 30
- Language
- cat, Russian, English, German
- ISBN
- 9782264024190
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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 2017 citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro)
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