Kazuo Ishiguro 's mother was in Nagasaki when the atomic bomb was dropped.
When Ishiguro, the Nobel laureate and author of “Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go,” first undertook fiction writing in his 20s, his first novel, 1982's “A Pale View of Hills” was inspired by his mother's stories, and his own distance from them. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki but, when he was 5, moved to England with his family.
