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3.6 stars
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From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants...
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English
Average Rating:
3.9 stars
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale,...
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Everyman's library volume 349
Language:
English
Average Rating:
3 stars
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A tragic, spiritual portrait of a perfect English butler and his reaction to his fading insular world in post-war England.
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Language:
English
Average Rating:
3.2 stars
Description:
"An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. "You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay. . ." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo...
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Publisher:
A.A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
1995
Language:
English
Description:
From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day, here is a novel that is at once a gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control. The setting is a nameless Central European city where Ryder, a renowned pianist, has come to give the most important performance of his life....
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Publisher:
Alfred A. Knopf
Pub. Date:
2024
Language:
English
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"Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain collects the lyrics of sixteen songs he wrote for world-renowned American singer Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner, Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming together of the literary and musical worlds, the lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces. Further exploring the notion of collaboration...
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Publisher:
Vintage Español
Pub. Date:
2010
Language:
Spanish
Description:
A primera vista, los jovencitos que estudian en el internado de Hailsham son como cualquier otro grupo de adolescentes. Practican deportes, tienen clases de arte donde sus profesoras -o guardianas- se dedican a estimular especialmente su creatividad y, como todos los jóvenes, descubren el sexo, el amor, los juegos del poder. La institución es una curiosa Arcadia inglesa, recóndita y orgullosa de sus instalaciones deportivas, de sus jardines, de...
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Series:
Panorama de narrativas volume 371
Publisher:
Anagrama
Pub. Date:
1997
Language:
Spanish
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Editorial Anagrama
Pub. Date:
2017
Language:
Spanish
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"Inglaterra, Edad Media. Dos ancianos parten en busca de su hijo. Este se marcho hace mucho, aunque en circunstancias que no recuerdan, porque han perdido buena parte de la memoria debido a lo que los habitantes de su region llaman ±la niebla¬. En su periplo se encontraran con un guerrero sajon llamado Wistan, un joven herido y el anciano caballero Sir Gawain, que busca acabar con un dragon. Juntos se enfrentaran a los multiples peligros del viaje....
17. Never let me go
Publisher:
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date:
[2011]
Language:
English
Average Rating:
4 stars
Description:
Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy are best friends who grow up together at an English boarding school with a chilling secret. When they learn the shocking truth that they are genetically engineered clones raised to be organ donors, they embrace their fleeting chance to live and love.