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PunkandCannonballer t1_jd0j5ng wrote

Reply to comment by Legreatworrier in Where to Start with Kazuo Ishiguro by edward_radical

I think Ishiguro uses sci-fi and fantasy as vehicles to tell emotionally-driven stories, and it's pretty unique. Like you said, the actual genre is very minimal as far as the importance it has to the story being told. Like with Klara or Never Let Me Go, he uses sci-fi as much as he needs to in order to set up the story and then it kind of stops mattering.

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Legreatworrier t1_jd25akz wrote

I agree, he definitely has his own approach to story writing, he kind of softly defies genre conventions and I'm very here for it. Emotional-driven stories is a great way to describe it, I read Never Let Me Go quite a long time ago and although I'm a bit foggy now on the plot the feeling of it has definitely stuck around.

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