Novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's archive bought by University of Texas

Collection includes discarded opening chapter for The Remains of the Day, as well as extensive notes and multiple drafts of the writer’s works

The archives of award-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro, including a discarded opening chapter for his best-known book The Remains of the Day, have been bought by the University of Texas.

The novelist, who was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and has lived in Britain since he was a child, has kept extensive notes and multiple drafts of his works that include Never Let Me Go and The Buried Giant.

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