The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro

• Music
• Literature
• Arts
• Japanese Literature
• Travel
• Romance
• Graphic Novel

The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain by Kazuo Ishiguro is a beautifully unusual collection, gathering sixteen song lyrics the Nobel Prize-winning author wrote for the celebrated jazz singer Stacey Kent, set to music by her partner Jim Tomlinson. Introduced by Ishiguro himself, the collection brings together the literary and musical worlds, with lyrics infused with yearning, melancholy, love, and the romance of travel and liminal spaces. Gorgeously illustrated throughout, this volume offers a rare glimpse into a different creative dimension of one of contemporary literature's most celebrated voices.

Best known for novels like Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, Ishiguro brings the same quiet emotional precision to these lyrics that defines his fiction, exploring themes of longing, memory, and fleeting connection across shifting European landscapes. The illustrations, by acclaimed Italian artist Bianca Bagnarelli, capture the varying moods and stories contained within the songs, making this as much a visual experience as a literary one. For readers in Bangladesh who admire Ishiguro's fiction or have an appreciation for music, poetry, and the art of songwriting, this collection offers something genuinely different and deeply evocative.

Elegant, intimate, and unlike anything else in Ishiguro's body of work, The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain is a wonderful addition for collectors and admirers alike. Book Beavers is delighted to bring this unique illustrated collection to readers across Bangladesh as part of our curated selection of English titles. Order your copy of The Summer We Crossed Europe in the Rain online from Book Beavers today and experience a different, lyrical side of Kazuo Ishiguro.