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When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro

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Name: Kazuo Ishiguro
Birth Date: November 8, 1954
Place of Birth: Nagasaki, Japan
Nationality: British
Gender: Male
Occupations: Writer

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Biography of Kazuo Ishiguro
5987 words, approx. 20 pages
Kazuo Ishiguro's literary reputation was established by three novels published over seven years: A Pale View of Hills won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first novel of 1982; An Artist of the Floating World won the 19...
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Biography of Kazuo Ishiguro
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"When I write a novel perhaps some part of me wants to offer in a book an experience that you can't get easily sitting in front of a cinema screen or a television screen," novelist Kazuo Ishiguro told Linda Richards in an interview for January magazine o...


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When We Were Orphans is a novel by the British-Japanese author Kazuo Ishiguro, published 2000 (ISBN...


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World Literature Today
When We Were Orphans.(Review) (book review)
06/22/2000: 806 words, approx. 3 pages
Kazuo Ishiguro. When We Were Orphans. London/New York. Faber/ Knopf. 2000. 256 pages. 19.99 [pounds sterling]. ISBN 0-571-20384-1/0-375-41054-6. Kazuo Ishiguro's long-awaited fifth ovel, When We Were Orphans, bears a superficial resemblance to his previous novel, The Unconsoled, and revisits certain themes and...
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The Antioch Review
When We Were Orphans.(Review)(Brief Article)
06/22/2001: 312 words, approx. 1 pages
When We Were Orphans by Kazuo Ishiguro. Knopf, 336 pp. $25.00. Nominated for Booker and Whitbread prizes, this novel is--on the surface--an adventure story about a famous detective who solves an intriguing mystery. The novel opens in London in 1923 as the young...
 


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