Five uneasy pieces amid a twilight world Nov 15, 2009
Kazuo Ishiguro writes at the verge where dreams, in all their brightness and fragile logic, are turning into nightmare ... NOCTURNES: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall By Kazuo Ishiguro Knopf, 240 pp. (Boston Globe)
Sound of music Nov 5, 2009
In Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, author Kazuo Ishiguro connects stories with a musical theme. The Soloist: a Lost Dream, an Unlikely Friendship and the Redemptive Power of Music by Steve Lopez is a compelling tale of the human spirit. (Lihue Garden Island, HA)
Stacey Kent's musical stories Oct 13, 2009
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* MUSIC: She swings to poetry Sep 25, 2009
One notable admirer, British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, has even become a collaborator. He wrote the lyrics to four songs on Kents 2007 album Breakfast on the Morning Tram, which earned a Grammy nomination for best jazz vocalist and hit platinum in France, where she is immensely popular (the Ishiguro-penned track, The Ice Hotel, is well worth checking out on Kents MySpace page). (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
Happy 80th birthday, Faber Sep 21, 2009
The anniversary publications also include the Faber Firsts, 10 republished paperbacks of debut novels which are now famous, including Bliss by Peter Carey, A Pale View of Hills by Kazuo Ishiguro, Cover Her Face by P.D. James and The Buddha of Suburbia by Hanif Kureishi. The books have new covers that echo the distinctive eras of Faber design. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Opinion)
Leaves and pages turn in the fall books preview Sep 7, 2009
by Kazuo Ishiguro (Knopf). Music flows between these interconnected stories by the author of "Remains of the Day.". (San Francisco Chronicle -- Entertainment)
Newsweek: 11 things about the 'Harry Potter' cast Jul 15, 2009
"At the moment, I'm reading a book of short stories called Nocturnes by Kazuo Ishiguro," he says. "I think the subtitle is Five Stories of Music and Nightfall. And they're lovely.". (MSNBC -- Movies)
Nocturnes: Five Stories Of Music And Nightfall Jun 4, 2009
Kazuo Ishiguro: Nocturnes ... All of the characters in Kazuo Ishiguro's quintet of stories, Nocturnes, are either setting out on the grand adventure of life, at the crossroads or looking back with resignation on what might have been and what has come to pass ... Kazuo Ishiguro: Nocturnes. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
It's time for an ambitious new literature of the workplace May 31, 2009
Consider some of the great Booker Prize-winning fiction writers of the last two decades: Anne Enright, John Banville, Yann Martel, Peter Carey, Kazuo Ishiguro - fine writers and deserving winners, yet all of them writing to one side of the working realm. The territory of the novel seems inevitably to be defined by the domestic subject matter tackled by Pulitzer Prize-winning writers like Anne Tyler or Michael Cunningham. (Boston Globe)
* [HARDCOVER: US] Life, from allegro to largo May 24, 2009
Repeated motifs reverberate through subtly interlocking stories in celebrated British author Kazuo Ishiguros latest work Nocturnes ... Much the same could be said about Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the most respected and covertly enigmatic of the British writers who made their names in the 1980s. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- World)
On the shortlist May 2, 2009
The Sydney Morning Herald: national, world, business, entertainment, sport and technology news from Australia's leading newspaper. Local bookish types nominate their picks of the Sydney Writers' Festival program. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
Keira Knightley to Star in Never Le... Mar 27, 2009
Keira Knightley to Star in Never Let Me Go: Movie Based on Booker Prize-Winning Author Kazuo Ishiguros Novel ... Movie Based on Booker Prize-Winning Author Kazuo Ishiguros Novel ... With the success of Kazuo Ishiguro s book-turned-into-film , it was only a matter of time before filmmakers latched on to the idea of putting his beautifully crafted pseudo-sci-fi novel Never Let Me Go on the silver screen. (Suite101.com)
Focus falls on a mythic Obama Mar 27, 2009
Music runs through the festival, from a lecture on Listening to the 20th Century by The New Yorker critic Alex Ross to an interview by video link from London with Kazuo Ishiguro, author of the Booker Prize-winning The Remains Of The Day and the new Nocturnes. An expanded children's program will attract families on the final Sunday. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Entertainment)
