A brilliantly executed book by a master craftsman who has chosen a difficult subject: ourselves, seen through a glass, darkly. -- Margaret Atwood

A master storyteller . . . In this deceptively sad novel, he simply uses a science-fiction framework to throw light on ordinary human life, the human soul, human sexuality, love, creativity and childhood innocence. He does so with devastating effect. - Independent

A gothic tour de force . . . An oblique and elegaic meditation on mortality and lost innocence. - New York Times

Ishiguro's Booker-shortlisted sixth novel stays with you for days, spellbindingly sad and dismaying. - London Evening Standard

The year's most extraordinary novel . . . Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness. -- Peter Kemp - Sunday Times

Masterly . . . A novel with piercing questions about humanity and humaneness. - Sunday Times

A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish. - Time

A wonderful novel. - Washington Post

Brilliant . . . exact and affecting. - Observer

A gorgeous 20th-anniversary edition of this beloved modern classic, complete with a brand new introduction from the Nobel Prize-winning author.