"The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain" by Kazuo Ishiguro

One item on a page of new books caught my eye – a new work by Novel Prizewinner Kazuo Ishiguro entitled The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain. The last work I’d read by him was The Buried Giant, something of a early medieval story set not long after the age of King Arthur’s reign. I loved the story, so I went looking to find out more about this new work. 

Ishiguro was born in Japan but raised and educated in Britain. He’s likely best known for two works that out-British the British – Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day (which won the Booker Prize in 1989).  But among many other books, he’s written stories set in Japan, delved into crime fiction (When We Were Orphans), and most recently written Klara and the Sun, which might be defined as literary science fiction.

 

And now he’s written song lyrics, many of which look suspiciously like poetry.

To continue reading, please see my post today at Tweetspeak Poetry.

Some Thursday Readings

 

A Burning Spear: Poetry and the Rebellion of Small, Good Things – Paul Pastor at Mere Orthodoxy.

 

“A Lament,” poem by Wilfrid Wilson Gibson – Joseph Bottum at Poems Ancient and Modern.

 

By the Rues: A Poem for Veterans Day – Maureen Doallas at Writing Without Paper.

 

After Apple-Picking – poems by Megan Willome (and Rpbert Frost).

 

“A Spur to Genius,” poem by Charles Woodward Hutson – Anthony Esolen at Word & Song.