"Life Itself" is the best possible antidote to his experience of loss.
But it seems to have made the experience of loss a chapter in their love rather than its end.
That was a novel set in Afghanistan amid the ruins of war, juxtaposing eastern and western characters united by the experience of loss.
It is tempting to see this experience of loss as the key to Ishiguro's artistic temperament, the basis for his particular interest in memory and grief.
There are thousands of people going through this solitary experience of loss – we need to find a way of giving them, giving each other, a sense of community.
By Cody Delistraty March 20, 2015 It is tempting to see the experience of loss as the key to the novelist Kazuo Ishiguro's artistic temperament.
The statistics about reductions of violence in Iraq are irrefutable; the country's qualitative experience of loss and partial recovery is perhaps more elusive.
I ask whether that early experience of loss provided any special insight when it came to Six Feet Under, a show in which bereavement was the constant theme.
There is no sobering experience of loss, no real sense of the obscenity and tragedy of war and therefore nothing really at stake.
Memories that mixed childhood with war, innocence and the loss of innocence, and came to embrace the experience of loss more generally.
Balancing humor and tension with a subtle suggestion of menace, the men nervously circle each other, occasionally finding common ground in their experience of loss.
