- Home
- Fiction
- Short Story Collections
- Faber Stories
- Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories)
Come Rain or Come Shine (Faber Stories)
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
26 in stock
Join Faber Members for 10% off your first order.
Faber Stories, a landmark series of individual volumes, presents masters of the short story form at work in a range of genres and styles.
When Ray turns up to visit his old university friends Charlie and Emily, he’s given a special task: to be so much his useless self that he makes Charlie look good by comparison.
But Ray has his own buried feelings to contend with. Decades earlier, he and Emily would listen to jazz when they were alone, and now, as Sarah Vaughan sings through the speakers, he struggles to control everything the sound brings with it.
In Kazuo Ishiguro’s hands, a snapshot of domestic realism becomes a miniature masterpiece of memory and forgetting.
Bringing together past, present and future in our ninetieth year, Faber Stories is a celebratory compendium of collectable work.
KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me…
Read MoreBrowse a selection of books we think you might also like, with genre matches and a few wildcards thrown in.
As Kazuo Ishiguro's masterpiece celebrates two decades in print, find out more about the story and watch the author discuss …
On 13 March 2025, Faber will publish a beautiful clothbound anniversary edition of the novel alongside a special anniversary paperback. …
‘I’ve built a reputation over the years as a writer of stories, but I started out writing songs.’ Kazuo Ishiguro
Explorations of artificial intelligence – robots, computers, androids, automatons, machines – take many different forms in fiction. Here is a …
Download Faber's Abridged GCSE and A Level study guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go for free, and read …
Our books of the year, along with what we'll be reading and gifting this Christmas.
Senior Designer Pete Adlington gives a behind-the-scenes insight into the process of designing the cover for Klara and the Sun, …
On 7 December 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature.
We asked our colleagues to recall their first or their favourite literary encounter with Kazuo Ishiguro.