The ‘inevitable sadness’ of Kazuo Ishiguro’s fiction

By Cynthia F. Wong, Professor of English, University of Colorado Denver. British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro listens to a question during a press conference at his home in London on Oct. 5, 2017. Alastair Grant/AP Photo On a damp October day in 2006, I followed Kazuo Ishiguro and my 10-year-old daughter Grace to a back table at…