Statutory warning: This column will offend those in the art fraternity who don't like holding a mirror to the truth.
I made no attempt to cultivate the thin severe looking old gentleman, with fresh bibhuti marks on his forehead every morning, who lived a few houses away from ours. But I was forced to cross his path and the culprit was our dog who seemed quite oblivious of what he ...
Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the most elegant prose writers around and each of his six novels has been marked by a simple, immediately recognisable style so unobtrusive that it doesnt even appear to be a style at first glance.