Creating an organusing a patient'sownstem cellssolves the problemofhaving tousepowerfulimmunosuppressant drugs to stop the body rejecting a another person'skidney.
I've been pondering the other shortlisted authors' styles - Ishiguro's prose was also very deliberate and spare, but with the effect of creating an Enid Blytonesque tale of cloning and organ harvesting.
Creating a part that is specific to a patient's organ takes on even more importance with diseases like bronchial malacia, in which conventional intervention is risky and often the alternative is life on a ventilator.