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If you like well-written novels that prioritize compelling timely storylines with artful prose and structure, then this is the genre for you. So, why is it called "contemporary"? Because it’s fiction set in the real world, in times contemporary to the date it was published, and the stories deal with real-world issues. Representing a diversity of backgrounds and nationalities, here are our picks for the best writers of contemporary fiction over the last 50 years.
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Klara and the Sun
- A Novel
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 8,369
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,274
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,239
Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Well Worth Having Waited For!
- By otherdeb on 03-04-21
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Klara and the Sun
- A Novel
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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Never Let Me Go
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9,269
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7,329
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Story4 out of 5 stars 7,344
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans comes an unforgettable mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous....
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1 out of 5 stars
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Sorry!
- By mary on 12-03-17
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Never Let Me Go
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 9 hrs and 40 mins
- Release date: 04-11-05
- Language: English
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The Remains of the Day
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 1,841
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1,608
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 1,595
This is Kazuo Ishiguro's profoundly compelling portrait of Stevens, the perfect butler, and of his fading, insular world in post-World War II England....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful and ever relevant
- By bbots on 07-04-20
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The Remains of the Day
- Narrated by: Nicholas Guy Smith
- Length: 9 hrs and 23 mins
- Release date: 10-15-19
- Language: English
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The Buried Giant
- A Novel
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 2,795
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 2,521
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Story4 out of 5 stars 2,525
The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years....
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5 out of 5 stars
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The beauty of the reveal
- By Anonymous User on 03-17-15
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The Buried Giant
- A Novel
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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Klara and the Sun
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 413
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 345
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Story4 out of 5 stars 343
In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question on what it means to love....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wonderful - but some issues with narration
- By K. Brum on 04-10-22
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Klara and the Sun
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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An Artist of the Floating World
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 286
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 249
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Story4 out of 5 stars 246
This is the story of an artist as an aging man, struggling through the wreckage of Japan's World War II experience. Ishiguro's first novel....
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2 out of 5 stars
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An incongruous reader
- By Emeritus on 11-03-17
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An Artist of the Floating World
- Narrated by: David Case
- Length: 6 hrs and 24 mins
- Release date: 08-14-12
- Language: English
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The Unconsoled
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 188
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 167
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Story4 out of 5 stars 166
A gripping psychological mystery, a wicked satire of the cult of art, and a poignant character study of a man whose public life has accelerated beyond his control....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Very satisfied with this book!!
- By Becker_Books on 08-06-18
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The Unconsoled
- Narrated by: Simon Vance
- Length: 19 hrs and 29 mins
- Release date: 12-07-17
- Language: English
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When We Were Orphans
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 784
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 595
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Story4 out of 5 stars 593
Christopher Banks, an English boy born in early-20th-century Shanghai, is orphaned at age nine when both his mother and father disappear under suspicious circumstances....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Just short of 5 stars
- By Everett Leiter on 05-26-06
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When We Were Orphans
- Narrated by: John Lee
- Length: 10 hrs and 50 mins
- Release date: 06-27-05
- Language: English
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Nocturnes
- Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, Lincoln Hoppe, and others
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 184
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 138
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Story4 out of 5 stars 138
One of the most celebrated writers of our time gives us his first cycle of short fiction: five brilliantly etched, interconnected stories in which music is a vivid and essential character....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Wow!
- By Rebecca Lindroos on 11-29-09
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Nocturnes
- Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
- Narrated by: Mark Bramhall, Kirby Heyborne, Lincoln Hoppe, Simon Vance
- Length: 6 hrs and 39 mins
- Release date: 09-22-09
- Language: English
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Klara y el sol
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Laura Vives
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 40
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 36
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Story4 out of 5 stars 36
La esperada novela de Kazuo Ishiguro tras el "Premio Nobel". Una historia de ciencia ficción que indaga en lo que nos hace humanos...
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2 out of 5 stars
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Lento
- By Marta on 06-18-22
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Klara y el sol
- Narrated by: Laura Vives
- Length: 10 hrs and 22 mins
- Release date: 03-05-21
- Language: Spanish
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Never Let Me Go
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Kerry Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 45
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Story4 out of 5 stars 44
In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England....
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Never Let Me Go
- Narrated by: Kerry Fox
- Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
- Release date: 07-03-14
- Language: English
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The Remains of the Day
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 330
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 298
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 296
A contemporary classic, The Remains of the Day is Kazuo Ishiguro's beautiful and haunting evocation of life between the wars in a Great English House....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Beautiful
- By Rochelle on 03-31-13
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The Remains of the Day
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 09-06-12
- Language: English
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A Pale View of Hills
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Roe Kendall
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 192
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Performance4 out of 5 stars 175
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Story4 out of 5 stars 175
The story of Etsuko, a Japanese woman now living alone in England, dwelling on the recent suicide of her daughter. In a story where past and present confuse, she relives scenes of Japan's devastation in the wake of World War II....
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3 out of 5 stars
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Narration vs performance
- By Marisabel on 10-30-17
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A Pale View of Hills
- Narrated by: Roe Kendall
- Length: 5 hrs and 59 mins
- Release date: 08-14-12
- Language: English
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Klara and the Sun
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- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 49
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 44
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 44
The magnificent new novel from Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro - author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day....
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4 out of 5 stars
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Good book but!
- By siyaz on 12-09-21
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Klara and the Sun
- Narrated by: Sura Siu
- Length: 10 hrs and 16 mins
- Release date: 03-02-21
- Language: English
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When We Were Orphans
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 55
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 50
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Story4 out of 5 stars 50
England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Nostalgic and alluring!
- By perspective on 03-21-15
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When We Were Orphans
- Narrated by: Michael Maloney
- Length: 10 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 10-09-14
- Language: English
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The Buried Giant
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 160
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 144
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Story4 out of 5 stars 145
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at last the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased....
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5 out of 5 stars
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One of the best ones
- By Anonymous User on 05-27-20
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The Buried Giant
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 03-03-15
- Language: English
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The Remains of the Day
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 21
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 21
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 21
Kazuo Ishiguro's Booker Prize-winning masterpiece became an international best seller on publication, was adapted into an award-winning film, and has since come to be regarded as a modern classic....
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5 out of 5 stars
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A little posh, at first
- By Megan on 04-15-21
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The Remains of the Day
- Narrated by: Dominic West
- Length: 7 hrs and 5 mins
- Release date: 03-20-18
- Language: English
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The Buried Giant
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4 out of 5 stars 9
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Performance4.5 out of 5 stars 7
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Story4 out of 5 stars 6
The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. A couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding their long-lost son....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Excellently Read
- By Amazon customer on 03-15-18
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The Buried Giant
- Narrated by: David Horovitch
- Length: 11 hrs and 48 mins
- Release date: 11-27-17
- Language: English
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Never Let Me Go
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Unabridged
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Overall4.5 out of 5 stars 35
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 32
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Story4.5 out of 5 stars 32
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human....
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5 out of 5 stars
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Another mesmerizing story by Ishiguro.
- By Hasmik on 12-07-17
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Never Let Me Go
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
- Release date: 11-21-17
- Language: English
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Los restos del día
- By: Kazuo Ishiguro
- Narrated by: Mario Gas
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
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Overall5 out of 5 stars 1
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Performance5 out of 5 stars 1
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Story5 out of 5 stars 1
Inglaterra, julio de 1956. Stevens, el narrador, durante treinta años ha sido mayordomo de Darlington Hall. Lord Darlington murió hace tres...
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Los restos del día
- Narrated by: Mario Gas
- Length: 8 hrs and 25 mins
- Release date: 04-20-22
- Language: Spanish
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