The Cambridge Companion to Kazuo Ishiguro offers an accessible introduction to key aspects of the novelist's remarkable body of work. The volume addresses Ishiguro's engagement with fundamental questions of humanity and personal responsibility, with aesthetic value and political valency, with the vicissitudes of memory and historical documentation, and with questions of family, home, and homelessness. Focused through the personal experiences of some of the most memorable characters in contemporary fiction, Ishiguro's writing speaks to the major communitarian questions of our time - questions of nationalism and colonialism, race and ethnicity, migration, war, and cultural memory and social justice. The chapters attend to Ishiguro's highly readable novels while also ranging across his other creative output. Gathering together established and emerging scholars from the UK, Europe, the USA, and East Asia, the volume offers a survey of key works and themes while also moving critical discussion forward in new and challenging ways.

A lively, accessible and authoritative introduction to the work of Kazuo Ishiguro, one of the leading novelists of our time.

About the Author
Andrew Bennett is Professor of English at the University of Bristol. He is co-author, with Nicholas Royle, of the best-selling textbooks Introduction to Literature, Criticism and Theory (6th edn., 2022), and This Thing Called Literature: Reading, Thinking, Writing (2nd edn., 2023).


Book Information
ISBN 9781108822022
Author Andrew Bennett
Format Paperback
Page Count 293
Imprint Cambridge University Press
Publisher Cambridge University Press
Weight(grams) 423g
Dimensions(mm) 229mm * 152mm * 15mm