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I didn't need to find the book realistic, necessarily, but I thought the background to this was too nebulous. It's a delicate balance; I'm also not fond of books where the author spells out everything, seemingly not confident of the reader's ability to flesh things out. The author needs to have a thorough understanding of his world and then convey enough to suggest a coherent and consistent universe and no more. Implication and indirect are what I look for.
In fact, Ishiguro blew it both ways, AFAIC. Too slight a framework for the issues he wanted to suggest, and then that horrible info dump at the end.
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