Comment from the book world in October 2024

‘One person writing in a quiet room, trying to connect with another person, reading in another quiet-or maybe not so quiet-room. Stories can entertain, sometimes teach or argue a point. But for me the essential thing is that they communicate feelings. That they appeal to what we share as human beings across our borders and divides. There are large glamorous industries around stories; the book industry, the movie industry, the television industry, the theatre industry. But in the end, stories are about one person saying to another: This is the way it feels to me. Can you understand what I'm saying? Does it also feel this way to you?

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of nine works of fiction, including An Artist of the Floating World, The Remains of the Day (which won the Booker Prize), Never Let Me Go and Klara and the Sun. His books have been translated into 50 languages and he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017.

https://www.faber.co.uk/author/kazuo-ishiguro/