The Quiet Gems

Nandini Nair

The majority of this year’s list of bests comprises quieter books, those which arrived with less fanfare and left a lasting impression

The undiminished solar power of Kazuo Ishiguro’s imagination

From Orhan Pamuk’s plague novel to Kazuo Ishiguro’s love story, from Jhumpa Lahiri’s first Italian novel to Jeet Thayil’s feminist testament

Medieval England soars and plummets in Ishiguro’s seventh novel, a fantasy tale

In his first collection of short stories, Kazuo Ishiguro shows us that this form is capable of handling the biggest of themes

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