ONE of the last books I bought from the Kinokuniya Bookstore in Malaysia was Kazuo Ishiguro's Nobel Prize for Literature lecture published by Faber and Faber. Called My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs, it is a helpful book for all aspiring writers of fiction.

Instead of giving a lecture bristling with critical theory, Ishiguro talks about his beginnings as a writer and his creative process. At the age of five, he came to England with his parents and sister in April of 1960. They lived in Guildford, Surrey, 30 miles south of London. His father was an oceanographer who came to work for the British government. The machine that he went on to invent is today part of the permanent collection at the Science Museum in London.

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