Vikas Datta In one way, this author exemplifies how literary ability can transcend national or linguistic landscapes, and in the other, provides another example of the pervasive power of English, following the footsteps of other exophonic writers in the language like Joseph Conrad, Karen Blixen aka Isak Dinesen, and Vladimir Nabokov, among others. But unlike them, Japanese-born British writer Kazuo Ishiguro went on to become a Nobel Literature laureate (2017). There are others who won the Nobel for writing in English despite it not being their mother tongue – Rabindranath Tagore and Wole Soyinka being most prominent – but the British Empire had ensured that they were willy-nilly exposed to it. Ishiguro’s case is different as most of his evocative works deal with situations and settings from far beyond his new – as well as old – homelands and times. Memory – and its failings, deception (usually of self), and a sense of duty (as understood) are the mai
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