Love's Body

April 28, 2005 | This article appeared in the May 16, 2005 edition of The Nation.

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Kazuo Ishiguro is a writer renowned for his capacity to create
beautifully controlled surfaces and to beautifully evoke the roiling
emotions beneath them.

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Claire Messud

Claire Messud's most recent book is The Hunters (Harvest), a pair of novellas.

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