As children, Kathy, Ruth and Tommy attended an exclusive boarding-school in the English countryside. Idyllic in some ways yet vaguely sinister, 'Hailsham' was a place of intense friendships, mysterious rules, and 'guardians' who constantly reminded the students how special they were. Now thirty-one, Kathy looks back on their shared past and tells how she and her friends gradually came to understand the shocking reason for the careful nurturing they had received. An affecting meditation on friendship, love and mortality.
Biografie
Kazuo Ishiguro, geb. 1954 in Nagasaki, kam 1960 nach London, wo er Englisch und Philosophie studierte. 1995 wurde ihm der Cheltenham Prize verliehen und 2006 der Belletristikpreis der 'Zeit'. Kazuo Ishiguros Werk wurde bisher in 28 Sprachen übersetzt. Der Autor lebt mit Frau und Kind in London. 2006 erhält er den Corine-Preis.
