Audiobooks by Kazuo Ishiguro

Klara es una AA, una Amiga Artificial, especializada en el cuidado de niños. Pasa sus días en una tienda, esperando a que alguien la adquiera y se la lleve a una casa, un hogar. Mientras espera, contempla el exterior desde el escaparate. Observa a los transeúntes, sus actitudes, sus gestos, su modo de caminar, y es testigo de algunos episodios que no acaba de entender, como una extraña pelea entre dos taxistas. Klara es una AA singular, es más observadora y más dada a hacerse preguntas que la mayoría de sus congéneres. Y, como sus compañeros, necesita del Sol para alimentarse, para cargarse de energía... ¿Qué le espera en el mundo exterior cuando salga de la tienda y se vaya a vivir con una familia? ¿Comprende bien los comportamientos, los repentinos cambios de humor, las emociones, los sentimientos de los humanos? Esta es la primera novela de Kazuo Ishiguro tras ser galardonado con el Premio Nobel. En ella vuelve a jugar con la ciencia ficción, como ya hizo en Nunca me abandones, y nos regala una deslumbrante parábola sobre nuestro mundo, como también ofreció en El gigante enterrado. Emergen en estas páginas su más que probada potencia fabuladora, la exquisitez de su prosa rebosante de matices y esa capacidad única para explorar la esencia del ser humano y lanzar preguntas turbadoras: ¿qué es lo que nos define como personas? ¿Cuál es nuestro papel en el mundo? ¿Qué es el amor?... Narrada por la curiosa e inquisitiva Klara, un ser artificial que se hace preguntas muy humanas, la novela es un deslumbrante tour de force en el que Ishiguro vuelve a emocionarnos y a abordar temas de calado que pocos narradores contemporáneos osan afrontar. Según la Academia Sueca, Kazuo Ishiguro «ha descubierto el abismo bajo nuestro ilusorio sentido de conexión con el mundo a través de novelas de gran fuerza emocional». «Como en las otras obras de Ishiguro, las ricas reflexiones íntimas de los protagonistas nos ofrecen grandes lecciones, y las discretas pero sagaces observaciones sobre la naturaleza humana de Klara nos impactan con su profunda gravedad. Esta novela, que retuerce brillantemente los géneros, es una delicia» (Publishers Weekly). «Kazuo Ishiguro es un genio deslumbrante» (The New York Times). «Ishiguro es un maestro construyendo historias, pero sobre todo un maestro de la subversión discreta» (Caroline Goldstein, Bustle). «Ishiguro es un maestro de lo asombroso... Pocos autores escriben sobre los misterios de la existencia con su gracia y su prodigioso talento» (Michael David Lukas, San Francisco Chronicle). «El mejor novelista británico en activo» (Gaby Wood, The Telegraph). «Un generador de ideas, un creador de metáforas» (David Mitchell). «Un maestro construyendo historias» (Margaret Atwood). «Un novelista extraordinario, tanto por la calidad de su trabajo como por el hecho de que nunca escribe la misma novela, ni el mismo tipo de novela, dos veces» (Neil Gaiman).

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Laura Vives (Narrator)

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The Unconsoled

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. Instead, he finds himself diverted on a series of cryptic and infuriating errands that nevertheless provide him with vital clues to his own past. In The Unconsoled Ishiguro creates a work that is itself a virtuoso performance, strange, haunting, and resonant with humanity and wit.

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Simon Vance (Narrator)

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My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs

The Nobel Lecture in Literature, delivered by Kazuo Ishiguro (The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans) at the Swedish Academy in Stockholm, Sweden, on December 7, 2017, in an elegant, clothbound edition. In their announcement of the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature, the Swedish Academy recognized the emotional force of Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction and his mastery at uncovering our illusory sense of connection with the world. In the eloquent and candid lecture he delivered upon accepting the award, Ishiguro reflects on the way he was shaped by his upbringing, and on the turning points in his career-"small scruffy moments . . . quiet, private sparks of revelation"-that made him the writer he is today. With the same generous humanity that has graced his novels, Ishiguro here looks beyond himself, to the world that new generations of writers are taking on, and what it will mean-what it will demand of us-to make certain that literature remains not just alive, but essential. An enduring work on writing and becoming a writer, by one of the most accomplished novelists of our generation.

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Kazuo Ishiguro (Narrator)

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Bei Anbruch der Nacht (Ungekürzte Lesung)

Steven spielt Saxophon in einer Jazzband, die von Bar zu Bar tingelt und nicht weiter auffällt. Er weiß, dass er richtig gut ist, aber er sieht aus wie ein Loser. Lindy ist der Star der Boulevardpresse, schon etwas älter, Schönheitsoperationen halten sie frisch. Gerade geschieden von Tony Gardner, einem einst berühmten, jetzt verblassten Jazzsänger, ist sie wieder reif für's Messer. Nachts, auf den verschwiegenen Fluren eines Nobelhotels in Hollywood, träumen die beiden Frischoperierten und Zubandagierten von einem neuen Leben.

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Christian Brückner (Narrator)

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The Buried Giant: A novel

From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain to find the son they have not seen for years, the son they can scarcely remember. They know they will face many hazards—some strange and otherworldly—but they cannot foresee how their journey will reveal to them the dark and forgotten corners of their love for each other. Nor can they foresee that they will be joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and a knight—each of them, like Axl and Beatrice, lost in some way to his own past, but drawn inexorably toward the comfort, and the burden, of the fullness of a life’s memories. Sometimes savage, sometimes mysterious, always intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale of love, vengeance, and war.

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), David Horovitch (Narrator)

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A Pale View of Hills

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Roe Kendall (Narrator)

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An Artist of the Floating World

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), David Case (Narrator)

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The Remains of the Day

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Simon Prebble (Narrator)

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Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall

One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character. A once-popular singer, desperate to make a comeback, turning from the one certainty in his life . . . A man whose unerring taste in music is the only thing his closest friends value in him . . . A struggling singer-songwriter unwittingly involved in the failing marriage of a couple he’s only just met . . . A gifted, underappreciated jazz musician who lets himself believe that plastic surgery will help his career . . . A young cellist whose tutor promises to “unwrap” his talent . . . Passion or necessity—or the often uneasy combination of the two—determines the place of music in each of these lives. And, in one way or another, music delivers each of them to a moment of reckoning: sometimes comic, sometimes tragic, sometimes just eluding their grasp. An exploration of love, need, and the ineluctable force of the past, Nocturnes reveals these individuals to us with extraordinary precision and subtlety, and with the arresting psychological and emotional detail that has marked all of Kazuo Ishiguro’s acclaimed works of fiction.

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Kirby Heyborne, Lincoln Hoppe, Mark Bramhall, Simon Vance (Narrator)

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Never Let Me Go

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 them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), Rosalyn Landor (Narrator)

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When We Were Orphans

A masterful novel from one of the most admired writers of our time. Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances. He grows up to become a renowned detective, and more than 20 years later, returns to Shanghai to solve the mystery of the disappearances. Within the layers of the narrative told in Christopher's precise, slightly detached voice are revealed what he can't, or wont, see: that the simplest desires -- a child's for his parents, a man's for understanding -- may give rise to the most complicated truths. A feat of narrative skill and soaring imagination, When We Were Orphans is Kazuo Ishiguro at his brilliant best. Performed by John Lee

Kazuo Ishiguro (Author), John Lee (Narrator)

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