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Kazuo Ishiguro is one of the British writers. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, and settled in United Kingdom. A Pale View of Hills, Ishiguro’s first novel is A Pale View of Hills. This novel presents view of the Japanese and British ideas. In 1982, the novel won the prominent Winifred Holtby Prize of the Royal Society of Literature, and Times Literary Supplement praise it as ‘a first novel of uncommon delicacy’ and ‘an extremely quiet study of extreme emotional turbulence.’ Mary J. Mayeropines this novel, ‘skilfully interweaving past with present, unfolds a poignant haunting tale that moves the reader as much by what is left unsaid as by what is told’. Many critics accept that the general themes developed in Ishiguro's novels, including A Pale View of Hills, portrays the issues of memory, self-deception, and codes of good manners, leading his characters to a re-evaluation or understanding about the victory or failure of their lives.