You are a human animal. You are a very special breed, or you are the only animal, who can think, who can reason, who can read.

Hi, this is Michael Silverblatt, and this is Bookworm.

Today, I'm very pleased to have back with me, Casual Ishiguro,

the author of The Remains of the Day,

which has just come out as a vintage paperback

accompanied by his first two novels,

A Pale View of the Hills, and an artist of the floating world.

Now, when I read The Remains of the Day, it was very easily my favorite book of the last year,

and it was a delight, I guess, also also because I didn't know Ishigoro's work

at that time. Now I've read all three of his books and it's a great pleasure to have you

back in the studio today. Yeah, it's very nice to be back. I guess I'd begin by asking you,

the remains of the day won the Booker Award, the most prestigious

book award in Britain and has precipitated worldwide enthusiasm for the book, which you tell me has

had you circle in the globe. What is that in a writer's life? Well, it's flattering in a way.

There are positive aspects to that,

and I think there are some very obvious negative aspects to it.

I think the positive thing is,

I think it's increasingly important now

for writers, particularly serious novelists,

to try and write in an international way.

By that, I don't mean necessarily writing books about people who dash around the world.

But what I mean by that is that writers should be sensitive to audiences in different cultural settings and cultural contexts.

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