Kathy H. is 31 in the late 1990s, which places her childhood and adolescence in the '70s and early '80s???close to those of Ishiguro, who was born in 1955 in Nagasaki and moved to England when he was 5. (Surely there is a connection: As a child, Ishiguro must have seen many young people dying far too soon, through no fault of their own.) And so the observed detail is realistic???the landscapes, the