Kazuo Ishiguro

"The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war"--

"As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what...

Simplified Chinese edition of The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, decide to find the son they have not seen for years and scarcely remember. Along the way they meet a Saxon warrior and his orphan companion and a knight. Yet this fantasy setting is just a cover for deep philosophical discussions about life. Acclaimed and Booker Prize winning writer Ishiguro's first novel in ten years. 公元六世纪的英格兰，本土不列颠人与撒克逊入侵者之间的战争似乎已走到了终点——和平降临了这片土地，两个族群比邻而居，相安无事地共同生活了数十年。但与此同时，一片奇怪的“遗忘之雾”充盈着英格兰的山谷，吞噬着村民们的记忆，使他们的生活好似一场毫无意义的白日梦。一对年迈的不列颠夫妇想要赶在记忆完全丧失前找到此刻依稀停留在脑海中的儿子，于是匆匆踏上了一段艰辛的旅程。他们渴望让迷雾散去，渴望重拾两人相伴一生的恩爱回忆——但这片静谧的雾霭掩盖的却是一个黑暗血腥的过去，那是一个在数十年前被不列颠人的亚瑟王用违背理想的手段掩埋的巨人。一个神秘的撒克逊武士肩负使命来到这片看似平和的山谷，他那谦逊的外表背后究竟隐藏着怎样秘而不宣的动机？他的使命带给这个国度将是宽恕的橄榄枝还是复仇的剑与火？而亚瑟王最后的骑士高文则决心用生命守护国王的遗产，因为守护它就就意味着守护最后的和平。记忆与宽恕，复仇与和平，四人的命运不可避免地交织在了一处，而结局只有一个。...

A new edition of the Traditional Chinese edition of The Remains of the day, the Booker Prize winner by Kazuo Ishiguro. This elegiac novel mourning the decline of an empire and the last of the traditional butler was adapted to film in 1993 starring Anthony Hopkins. 「以哀而不傷的筆觸，平實卻又奇崛，把世界帶到讀者面前…… 於此，石黑一雄深入我心， 正如一首夜曲，又不止是一首夜曲。」──吳明益...