The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain: Lyrics for Stacey Kent [Hardcover]

From the Nobel Prize–winning author of Klara and the Sun and Never Let Me Go comes a gorgeously illustrated volume of lyrics written for the platinum-selling, Grammy-nominated jazz singer Stacey Kent.

Memorably introduced by Ishiguro himself, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain collects the lyrics of sixteen songs he wrote for world-renowned American singer Stacey Kent, which were set to music by her partner, Jim Tomlinson. An exquisite coming together of the literary and musical worlds, the lyrics are infused with a sense of yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces.

Further exploring the notion of collaboration and interpretation, the collection is illustrated by the acclaimed Italian artist Bianca Bagnarelli, whose work perfectly captures the atmosphere and sensibility of the songs.“Fascinating. . . . Beautifully illustrated by Bianca Bagnarelli, these lyrics remind us of some of Ishiguro’s characteristic themes—memory, love, travel, music’s haunting qualities—and are full of yearning, melancholy and the romance of travel, and of what might have been.” —Irish Times

“Lovely. . . . Propelled by imaginative depictions of Ishiguro’s words by Italian cartoonist Bianca Bagnarelli . . . it’s a delight.” —Zoomer MagazineKAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages, and The RemlÐ