Volume 36, Number 19 · December 7, 1989
On the High Wire
By Gabriele Annan
The Remains of the Day
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Knopf, 245 pp., $18.95
A Pale View of Hills
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Penguin, 183 pp., (out of print)
An Artist of the Floating World
by Kazuo Ishiguro
Vintage, 206 pp., $8.95 (paper)
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan thirty-five years ago. He came to England when he was six, and has lived there ever since. This is a stranger experience than being Japanese in the United States, where the landscape is dotted with second and third generation Japanese. Even twenty years ago, few Japanese lived in England, and a Japanese child, except in a group of tourists, was a rare sight indeed.
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