蜜芽传媒

Tim McInnerny reads Nobel Prize-winner Kazuo Ishiguro's classic 1986 novel, set in post-WWII Japan.

It is 1948. Japan is rebuilding after the horrors of the war, its people putting defeat behind them and looking to the future. The celebrated artist Masuji Ono fills his days in his garden with his two grown daughters and grandson, and his evenings drinking with old associates in the quiet lantern-lit bars of the old pleasure district. His should be a tranquil retirement. But as his memories continually return to the past, a dark shadow begins to grow over his serenity.

Today: On a visit from his daughter, artist Masuji Ono's quiet retirement is shaken by questions about his past...

Reader: Tim McInnerny
Writer: Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the world's most acclaimed contemporary writers. His novels have earned him many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have both been made into acclaimed films. He was awarded a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature and made Companion of Honour in 2025. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l鈥橭rdre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five.
Abridger: Richard Hamilton
Producer: Justine Willett