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When 21st-century sci-fi meets human emotion

The setting is London’s Soho Hotel.

Amid an army of publicists present to fuss over Carey Mulligan and Keira Knightley, one man sits quietly. It’s Kazuo Ishiguro, the 56-year-old Booker-prize winning author of The Remains of the Day.