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Kazuo Ishiguro's fiction persistently interrogates the tensions between home, identity, and displacement, rendering exile not merely as a geographical dislocation but as a psychological and moral condition. This article explores the thematic and narrative dimensions of exile in When We Were Orphans (2000) and The Remains of the Day (1989), examining how Ishiguro reimagines the concepts of home and self through fragmented memory, emotional repression, and moral introspection. Both novels reveal that exile is as much internal as external, a state of estrangement from one's past, identity, or emotions. The protagonists, Christopher Banks and Stevens, embody the exilic consciousness that negotiates belonging in the absence of rootedness, illustrating Ishiguro's preoccupation with the ethical complexities of remembering and forgetting. Through his distinctive narrative minimalism and introspective prose, Ishiguro transforms exile into a site of moral inquiry where silence, memory, and selfhood intersect. The paper argues that Ishiguro's characters do not merely experience exile; they inhabit it as a mode of being, thereby redefining the modern literary imagination of home and identity.