Ishiguro

[ ish-ee-goor-oh ]

noun

1. Ka·zu·o [kah, -zoo-oh, kaz, -oo-oh], born 1954, English novelist, born in Japan.

Ishiguro

/ ˌɪʃɪˈɡʊrəʊ /

noun

1. IshiguroKazuo1954MBritishJapaneseWRITING: novelist Kazuo (kætˈzuːəʊ). born 1954, British novelist, born in Japan. His novels include An Artist of the Floating World (1986), the Booker-prizewinning The Remains of the Day (1989), and Never Let Me Go (2005)

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Technological unemployment, the progress of artificial intelligence, inequality, the safety and ethics of gene editing, increasing loneliness and isolation—all of which we’re grappling with today—show up in Ishiguro’s world.

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Ishiguro’s novel is a snapshot of one of our possible futures, told through the eyes of a robot who keeps you rooting for her to the end.

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Then you have someone like Bob Dylan, one of Ishiguro’s heroes, who is constantly reinventing himself and trying out new things.

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Ishiguro wanted to create a book for 5 or 6-year-olds with bright illustrations and a simple narrative.

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Kathy in Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro’s 2005 dystopian novel about clones who exist to donate organs to others, is coming to terms with all that she has lost.

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This week: Kazuo Ishiguro's new Hollywood short story, and musical influences in Joyce, Beckett, and other classic Irish writers.

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