The Buried Giant

　　文學騎士歸來！睽違十年，布克獎得主石黑一雄最新長篇小說矚目上市！

　　故事發生在羅馬大軍撤退後的大不列顛，肆虐這片雨霧大地多年的戰火煙硝終於平息，百廢待舉。在這久違的平靜裡，一對老夫婦決定動身尋找失散多年、在記憶中身影已經日趨模糊的兒子。自認做好十足心理準備的二人，尋子途中陸續增加了一些同伴，像是帶著男孩的薩克遜戰士以及後來遇見的騎士等。這段彷彿要前往未知國度般的奇異冒險歷程，不僅考驗著彼此的信任與愛，也殘酷地迫使各人正視回憶裡試圖抹去的過往。

　　神秘氛圍環繞下的中世紀故事《The Buried Giant》如同一則戰爭、復仇與愛的寓言，石黑一雄以其細膩筆法與溫雅文字探究「遺忘」與「記得」這兩種經常被忽略的力量如何深淺不一地影響每個生命、隱隱地牽動關鍵性的決定。（文／博客來編譯）

　　From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day
 
　　The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain to find the son they have not seen for years, the son they can scarcely remember. They know they will face many hazards—some strange and otherworldly—but they cannot foresee how their journey will reveal to them the dark and forgotten corners of their love for each other. Nor can they foresee that they will be joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and a knight—each of them, like Axl and Beatrice, lost in some way to his own past, but drawn inexorably toward the comfort, and the burden, of the fullness of a life’s memories.

　　Sometimes savage, sometimes mysterious, always intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale of love, vengeance, and war.

作者簡介

　　KAZUO ISHIGURO's seven previous books have won him wide renown and numerous honors. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have more than 1,000,000 copies in print across platforms, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films.