Kazuo Ishiguro has 11 audiobooks on Listento.it, narrated by 12 narrators, with an average listener rating of 4.5★ across 409 ratings. The most-rated is The Remains of the Day.
The Remains of the Day
Summary
Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece became an international best seller on publication, was adapted into an award-winning film, and has since come to be regarded as a modern classic.
The Remains of the Day is a spellbinding portrayal of a vanished way of life and a haunting meditation on the high cost of duty. It is also one of the most subtle, sad, and humorous love stories ever written.
It is the summer of 1956, when Stevens, a man who has dedicated himself to his career as a perfect butler in the onetime great house of Darlington Hall, sets off on a holiday that will take him deep into the English countryside and, unexpectedly, into his own past, especially his friendship with the housekeeper, Miss Kenton. As memories surface of his lifetime "in service" to Lord Darlington and of his life between the wars, when the fate of the continent seemed to lie in the hands of a few men, he finds himself confronting the dark undercurrent beneath the carefully run world of his employer.
©1989 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2018 Vintage Canada
Never Let Me Go
Summary
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.
©2005 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2017 Vintage Canada
The Buried Giant
Summary
The extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased.
The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and otherworldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.
Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
Longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award
Longlisted for the 2017 Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award
Finalist for the 2016 World Fantasy Award - Novels
Shortlisted for the 2016 British Book Industry Award for Fiction
Longlisted for the 2015 Kirkus Prize
©2015 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2017 Vintage Canada
Klara and the Sun
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The magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro - author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. “The sun always has ways to reach us.” From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: What does it mean to love?
©2021 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2021 Knopf Canada
When We Were Orphans
Summary
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of the disappearances. Within the layers of the narrative told in Christopher's precise, slightly detached voice are revealed what he can't, or wont, see: that the simplest desires, a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding, may give rise to the most complicated truths. A feat of narrative skill and soaring imagination, When We Were Orphans is Kazuo Ishiguro at his brilliant best.
©2000 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2000 Books on Tape, Inc. and HarperCollins Publishers, Inc.
A Pale View of the Hills
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is the story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a novel where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II.
©2012 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2017 Vintage Canada
An Artist of the Floating World
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth and of the "floating world" - the nocturnal world of pleasure, entertainment, and drink - offer him both escape and redemption, even as they punish him for betraying his early promise. Indicted by society for its defeat and reviled for his past aesthetics, he relives the passage through his personal history that makes him both a hero and a coward but, above all, a human being.
©2012 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2017 Vintage Canada
Hasty for the Dark: Selected Horrors
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These selected terrors range from the speculative to supernatural horror, encompass the infernal and the occult, and include stories inspired by H. P. Lovecraft, Robert Aickman, and Ramsey Campbell. Hasty for the Dark is the second short story collection from the award-winning and widely appreciated British writer of horror fiction, Adam L. G. Nevill. The author's best horror stories from 2009 to 2015 are collected here for the first time. The hardest journeys in life and death are taken underground. No blackmail is as ghastly as extortion from angels. A swift reckoning often travels in handheld luggage. Once considered inhumane and now derelict, this zoo may not be as empty as assumed. A bad marriage, a killer couple, and part of a wider movement. No sign of life aboard an abandoned freighter, but what is left below deck tells a strange story. The origin of our species is not what we think. In destitution, the future for revolution and mass murder is so bright. Your memories may not be your own, and your life nothing more than a ritual that will compel you to perform an atrocity….
©2017 Adam L. G. Nevill (P)2017 Journalstone Publishing
Alles, was wir geben mussten
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Kazuo Ishiguro, 2017 mit dem Literaturnobelpreis ausgezeichnet, ist als Autor bekannt, der sensible Themen eindrucksvoll thematisiert. Auch in diesem Roman, der die Grenzen des medizinisch Machbaren scheinbar realistisch überschreitet. Erzählerischer Grundton dieses 2006 mit dem Corine-Preis ausgezeichneten Werks ist eine klassische Pubertäts- und Internatsgeschichte. Allerdings steigert sich diese Geschichte zum Thriller durch das dunkle Geheimnis, das auf den Jungen und Mädchen lastet. Ein aufregender und melancholischer Roman von einem der bedeutendsten Schriftsteller unserer Zeit. Corinna Kirchhoff, die in ihrer eindrucksvollen Karriere etliche große Theater-Heldinnen verkörpert hat, zeigt auch in dieser Lesung unter der Regie von Walter Adler ihr überragendes Können. Ihre Hörbuchlesungen sind immer wieder ein Hochgenuss. Der Titel des englischen Originals "Never Let Me Go" zieht sich auch als Song durch das Werk, das wir mit Zustimmung des Autors um diese Musik, geschrieben von Jan Koch, ergänzt haben. In deiner Audible-Bibliothek findest du für dieses Hörerlebnis eine PDF-Datei mit zusätzlichem Material.
©2017 Heyne Verlag (P)2017 Hörkultur Verlag AG
Klara y el sol
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La esperada novela de Kazuo Ishiguro tras el Premio Nobel. Una historia de ciencia ficción que indaga en lo que nos hace humanos. Klara es una AA, una Amiga Artificial, especializada en el cuidado de niños. Pasa sus días en una tienda, esperando a que alguien la adquiera y se la lleve a una casa, un hogar. Mientras espera, contempla el exterior desde el escaparate. Observa a los transeúntes, sus actitudes, sus gestos, su modo de caminar, y es testigo de algunos episodios que no acaba de entender, como una extraña pelea entre dos taxistas. Klara es una AA singular, es más observadora y más dada a hacerse preguntas que la mayoría de sus congéneres. Y, como sus compañeros, necesita del Sol para alimentarse, para cargarse de energía... ¿Qué le espera en el mundo exterior cuando salga de la tienda y se vaya a vivir con una familia? ¿Comprende bien los comportamientos, los repentinos cambios de humor, las emociones, los sentimientos de los humanos? Esta es la primera novela de Kazuo Ishiguro tras ser galardonado con el Premio Nobel. En ella vuelve a jugar con la ciencia ficción, como ya hizo en Nunca me abandones, y nos regala una deslumbrante parábola sobre nuestro mundo, como también ofreció en El gigante enterrado. Emergen en estas páginas su más que probada potencia fabuladora, la exquisitez de su prosa rebosante de matices y esa capacidad única para explorar la esencia del ser humano y lanzar preguntas turbadoras: ¿qué es lo que nos define como personas? ¿Cuál es nuestro papel en el mundo? ¿Qué es el amor?... Narrada por la curiosa e inquisitiva Klara, un ser artificial que se hace preguntas muy humanas, la novela es un deslumbrante tour de force en el que Ishiguro vuelve a emocionarnos y a abordar temas de calado que pocos narradores contemporáneos osan afrontar.
©2021 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2021 Editorial Anagrama
The Crying Season: An edge of your seat crime thriller
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The light fades as she runs for her life, the forest now becoming quieter around her. The only noise she hears is the sound of footsteps following her.... It’s hiking season in Black Rock Falls, and the small town in Montana is flooded with visitors. But when a hiker finds a human skull on a deserted trail in the woods that surround the town, Detective Jenna Alton is called in to investigate. With no missing persons reported, Jenna has no leads. Then her team makes a shocking discovery - the body of another hiker, a young man, tied to a tree and riddled with bullets. Could the two murders be linked? As more bodies are found, Jenna and her deputy David Kane know that they must venture deep into the forest to find and face the killer. But nothing can prepare them for what awaits them there.... If you love Robert Dugoni, Karin Slaughter, and Rachel Abbott you’ll love this nail-biting thriller from D.K. Hood. What readers are saying about D.K. Hood: "Wow this book was amazing...totally thrilling and had me hanging on to every word...leaves you wanting more... Well worth 5 stars, in fact I wish I could give it more." (Bonnie’s Book Talk) "Oh my flipping goodness!!...kept me guessing until the very last page...I cannot fault this book at all - if I could read it all over again for the very first time, I would jump at the chance... Hard hitting, addictive, and incredibly chilling... A truly toe curling read - fantastic!" (The Writing Garnet) "I was taken on a rollercoaster ride...it leaves you gripping the edge of your seat in anticipation...will keep you hooked from the very beginning." (Stardust Book Reviews)
©2018 D.K. Hood (P)2018 Bookouture