Kazuo Ishiguro Reads from The Buried Giant

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Kazuo Ishiguro reads a few passages from his novel, The Buried Giant.

Read our interview with the author below:
http://aaww.org/kazuo-ishiguro-my-own-private-japan/
"I was in my mid-twenties when I was writing my first novel, and I was looking back twenty years to my very early childhood in Japan. They’re probably very distorted, very colored memories. But nevertheless, let’s call them “memories” in big quotes. That’s what I had when I thought about Japan. So over that period from when I was five, when I arrived in Britain, to the time I started to write fiction, I think I had been building in my head a kind of fictional Japan. It was memories overlayed with whatever I imagined Japan to be like from books and manga stories, and also Japanese movies, because I went through a phase when I was really interested in Japanese movies that were set either during or just before when I left."

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