People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite … - Kazuo Ishiguro

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Kazuo Ishiguro

People aren't quite sure what it means when a book is a Booker Prize winner. They're not quite sure what is being recommended, what literary values it stands for, because every year it stands for something different.

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But then, I suppose, when with the benefit of hindsight one begins to search one's past for such 'turning points', one is apt to start seeing them everywhere.

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I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they'd once belonged to the sea.

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Memory is quite central for me. Part of it is that I like the actual texture of writing through memory.

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Typically in my novels the narrator tells a story by remembering, and the memories are colored by this and colored by that. So the whole universe of the novel tends to be framed by the narrator's memories and thoughts.

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Perhaps one day, all these conflicts will end, and it won't be because of great statesmen or churches or organisations like this one. It'll be because people have changed. They'll be like you, Puffin. More a mixture. So why not become a mongrel? It's healthy.

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