An adult narrator returns to a childhood whose rules she only partly understood.
Kazuo Ishiguro makes recollection an instrument of gradual recognition. The emotional force comes from the relationship between what is told calmly and what the reader begins to see behind it. Choose this for speculative literary fiction that rewards attention to omissions and limits, rather than a detailed explanation of every feature of its world.
WHO IS IT FOR?
For readers drawn to character, language and the tensions within ordinary lives.
