![]() ![]() ![]() The other Ishiguro, Hiroshi, stayed in Japan and became a famous engineer, making android twins of real people, which he calls Geminoids. (There is a common theme about genetic mutations in a play called “The Sun,” by Maekawa Tomihiro, which had a staged reading at RADA in London, in 2016). Rick, Josie’s friend, is gifted, but the better schools only take the lifted ones. Some children are “lifted,” which gives them a head start on life. Many other children have AFs in the novel, that is if they can afford them. ![]() Klara tells the reader how she becomes companion to a sick young girl called Josie (who is just a typo away from becoming josei, “female” in Japanese). His latest novel, Klara and the Sun, is about an android, though in the novel she’s called an AF, short for Artificial Friend. He was awarded an even bigger prize, the Nobel, in 2017, and even knighted by the Queen. ![]() That was made into a movie, as was Never Let Me Go (2005). He impersonated Japanese people in his first two novels but really didn’t find his voice until he became the English butler “Stevens” in his very popular novel The Remains of the Day (1989), for which he won the Booker Prize. One of them, Kazuo, left Japan and became a little Englishman, but he always felt like an outsider, which is a good thing for a writer, which is what he became. Once upon a time there were two men who shared the same surname and an interest in robots. Thanks for helping support Books on Asia! ![]()
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