Born in Nagazaki in 1954, arriving in England at the age of 5, from the
eighties, Ishiguro has become something of a prodigy and an enfant
terrible in the literary world. His novel "The Remains of Day" made him
all the more famous when James Ivory turned it into a film. Having an
excellent style, faithful to a British culture made up of deadpan
humour, of nonsense, of radical criticism, Ishiguro paints a study
without concession of his country of adoption and its history. If
there was in the previous two novels, "When we were Orphans" and "The
Unconsoled", a mirthful clownish tone as a counterpoint to emotion and
seriousness of purpose, it is not the case in this tale of despair that
borrows traits of political fiction from Huxley and Orwell. The
characters have benefited as children, outside the normal world, from a
privileged education, through which they discover little by little, having become
adolescents then adults, the terrible final realities. A
systematic exposure of the zones of the most unbearable shades of a
totalitarian society devoting itself to biopower, to me it is without
doubt an alarm call and a new masterpiece by Kazuo Ishiguro..