Evening Standard - London, March 20th, 2000
WHEN WE WERE ORPHANS by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber, 16.99)
KAZUO Ishiguro has become perhaps the most challenging, unconventional and solitary British novelist writing today. His publishers do not appear to be entirely happy with this development. "By the author of The Remains of the Day" they quaveringly assert on the cover of his new novel. Inside, like proud but latterly disconcerted parents, they list the prizes he has won, and remind us that several years ago the aforementioned The Remains of the Day sold millions of copies and was made into a film starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins. ...
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