World Literature Today, June 22nd, 2000
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 narrative devices found in the first three novels as well. Otherwise, it breaks new ground for its Anglo-Japanese author. Best known for The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro, in novel after novel, explores the quietly tortured inner lives of his first-person protagonists against the backd...
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