I can see,โ Miss Emily said, โthat it might look as though you were simply pawns in a game. It can certainly be looked at like that. But think of it. You were lucky pawns. There was a certain climate and now itโs gone. You have to accept that sometimes thatโs how things happen in the world. Peopleโs opinions, their feelings, they go one way, then the other. It just so happens you grew up at a certain point in this process.โ โIt might be just some trend that came and went,โ I said. โBut for us, itโs our life.
Kazuo IshiguroThe Booker triumph of Graham Swift's moving, effortlessly profound Last Orders is a vindication of the quiet, much-misunderstood path this fine writer chose to take after the brilliance of Waterland more than ten years ago.
Kazuo IshiguroI was a little concerned that a lot of people thought I wrote Merchant Ivory movies. I also thought if I was ever going to write something strange and difficult, that was the time.
Kazuo Ishiguro