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“... of originals – a dream of pure mobility. In English this is visible in some recent fiction by Kazuo Ishiguro and J.M. Coetzee, but one of its most extreme manifestations is the work of Yoko Tawada, a Japanese writer who lives in Germany, and whose work is split between Japanese and German. Her first book, a poetry collection, was published in a dual ...”

“... and incurious nature of the backpackers. Alex Garland has written of his admiration for Kazuo Ishiguro (some of the dialogue in The Beach is modelled on An Artist of the Floating World), and he often appears to be emulating Ishiguro’s trick of exposing his narrators despite themselves. Garland’s story ...”

“... of Young British Novelists, alongside Martin Amis and Ian McEwan. In the photo, she sits above Kazuo Ishiguro in a red and black checked dress with her hands clasped, the sole woman of colour. The following year her daughter Chiedu died of anorexia nervosa at the age of 23. She became the dedicatee of Head above Water, which appeared in 1986. ‘We ...”

“... characters into English with any conviction, and neither of them has made a home in the country: Kazuo Ishiguro, British in all but name, has not lived in Nagasaki since he was a toddler; David Mitchell left Hiroshima four years ago. There is a certain amount of unjustly neglected travel writing, such as the work of the late Alan Booth. But Japan has ...”

“... clear literary pedigrees now write SF regularly: Doris Lessing, Margaret Atwood, Michael Chabon, Kazuo Ishiguro. Authors who began inside the SF ghetto have found success outside it: J.G. Ballard as an author of realist novels, Samuel Delany in academia, William Gibson, Lethem himself (whose first books owed a lot to Dick). The sciences – biomedical ...”

“... choices of figure and ground: what emerges, what recedes. Invention is important; forgetting too. Kazuo Ishiguro’s novel The Buried Giant is set in ancient Britain, among dragons and ogres and pixies, with characters from the legends of King Arthur (if some critics found it too Tolkienesque, that’s because, like Tolkien, it draws on Anglo-Saxon ...”

“... have only to mention the names (Sir Kevin looked down at his pad) of Ian McEwan, Rose Tremain and Kazuo Ishiguro …’ ‘Yes,’ said Norman. ‘We’ve read those.’ Wincing at the ‘we’, the private secretary said that he thought East Anglia would suit Norman very well. ‘What with?’ said Norman. ‘I’ve no money.’ ‘That will not be a ...”