Quotes from Kazuo Ishiguro's books, and about them
Never Let Me Go on Daniel Deronda: “I was lying on a piece of old tarpaulin reading, as I say, Daniel Deronda, when Ruth came wandering over and sat down beside me.”
Never Let Me Go on War and Peace: “You could go around implying you'd read all kinds of things, nodding knowingly when someone mentioned, say, War and Peace”
When We Were Orphans on Ivanhoe: “I have a feeling we acted out scenes from Ivanhoe, which I was reading at that time”
Coventry on Never Let Me Go: “My name is Kathy H. I'm thirty-one years old, and I've been a carer now for over eleven years (essay on Never Let Me Go)”
Coventry on The Remains of the Day: “His most popular novel, The Remains of the Day, recommended itself to readers by the purity of its translation of that perennial English favourite, the period piece”
Coventry on The Unconsoled: “In Kazuo Ishiguro's 1995 novel The Unconsoled, Ryder, a pianist, is due to give an important concert in a foreign city”