![]() ![]() And someone who it would not be too scary to meet, I suspect. Kazuo Ishiguro comes across as such a lovely man – confident but humble, respectful and measured, subtly charming. Plus I just couldn’t wait for the paperback! There was great fanfare about its release on 2 March a whole episode of Alan Yentob’s BBC arts programme Imagine was devoted to the author, and I was delighted to watch a Manchester International Festival online event where Ishiguro was interviewed by fellow writer and poet Jackie Kay. Klara and the Sun by literary giant Kazuo Ishiguro is one such book. Perhaps that is also down to my age! There are just some books that are more of an event though – Hamnet, The Mirror and the Lightand The Testamentscome to mind – and simply deserve the gravitas of the hardback format. ![]() ![]() Most of my reading now, however, is done at home rather than on the fly and I find I enjoy the weight and feel of a hardback and the better quality paper. I don’t buy very many hardback books, hardly ever in fact until I started this blog, tending to find them cumbersome and too heavy for a handbag. ![]()
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