When I think of Kazuo Ishig­uro, Never Let Me Go potently res­onates like that rekin­dle of the smell of last night’s din­ner as you wash the dishes. It forms through senses that enrap­tures me back to the place that once was and no longer exists. A film ver­sion by Mark Romanek, notably for his vision­ary expe­ri­ence in NIN’s Closer, with Alex Gar­land adapt­ing the screen­play is cur­rently in post pro­duc­tion. My judg­ment will be reserved but it’s a mighty high bar they will have to meet and to achieve that it will have to deliver a vis­ceral expe­ri­ence that the book can­not in its medium.

Not many books have made that impact on me and I am look­ing for­ward to plung­ing into his lat­est, Noc­turnes. Faber & Faber has gone all out in mar­ket­ing this book with a sur­pris­ing, poetic video by a new­comer named George Wu.

Related mate­ri­als
An inter­view with Kazuo Ishig­uro about Noc­turnes
Noc­turnes extract 1 of 2
Noc­turnes extract 2 of 2

Nocturnes

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