Kazuo Ishiguro

Books on prize lists

• Never Let Me Go

  Written in English

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  Booker 2005 · Shortlist

  Never Let Me Go

  Never Let Me Go

  Kazuo Ishiguro · 51 when first published

  Novel · 288 pages · Speculative, Coming of age

  AIAI-generated summary:Now thirty-one, a woman looks back on her childhood with two close friends at Hailsham, a secluded school in rural England whose pupils were raised to think of themselves as special.

• When We Were Orphans

  Written in English

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  Booker 2000 · Shortlist

  When We Were Orphans

  When We Were Orphans

  Kazuo Ishiguro · 46 when first published

  Novel · Historical, Crime

  AIAI-generated summary:Christopher Banks, a celebrated London detective, was orphaned as a boy in Shanghai when his parents vanished; in 1937 he returns to the city, now at war, determined to find out what became of them.