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Old 09-18-2018, 07:46 PM   #52
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Originally Posted by issybird View Post
I'm going through the posts and reading them closely, but I thought I'd skip ahead to say that this is explicitly set in

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England, late 1990s
It says so right in the text, at the very beginning. So definitely alternative history, set in the the recent past from when Ishiguro wrote it.[...]
Ah, I remember seeing that and wondering about it. I mean, it's on the dedication page so I was never certain whether it was supposed to be part of the text or part of the dedication (some people do put some strange, sometimes private joke/reference, things on the dedication page).
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