Kazuo Ishiguro 2005
- What it is
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The life of someone made, not born · it makes you cry, in a good way
- Genre
- Literary Science fiction Classics
Everything below shares at least two of these traits, or sits with it in some reader's stack. We tell you why as you go.
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Sad, and in no hurry · comforting, like coming home
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