Come Rain or Come Shine

A man comes to collect a woman he has known for fifteen years — a woman he met on a rainy street and fell in love with, and with whom everything since has been either the fulfilment or the defeat of that original moment. In the space of a single evening, a journey, a meal, a game of cards, everything is decided — or is it? Kazuo Ishiguro’s short story is as compressed and as precisely balanced as a Japanese object, its apparent simplicity concealing depths that open gradually and keep opening long after the reading is over.

Part of the Faber Stories series — essential Ishiguro at his most economical, and the ideal introduction to his fiction for readers who want to begin with something brief before committing to the novels.

A beautiful small book — few pages that repay repeated reading. Published by Faber & Faber.