The 100 best novels: No 94 – An Artist of the Floating World by Kazuo Ishiguro (1986)
Kazuo Ishiguro’s study of guilt, aging, and solitude in postwar, post-imperial Japan is a tour de force of unreliable narration.
Kazuo Ishiguro wins the Nobel prize in literature 2017
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/oct/05/kazuo-ishiguro-wins-the-nobel-prize-in-literature
Ishiguro said he was “tremendously proud” to receive the award and emphasized how much he hoped it would be a force for good at a time of global instability.