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Knopf
March 2015
On Sale: March 3, 2015
336 pages
ISBN: 030727103X
EAN: 9780307271037
Kindle: B00N6PCXME
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Literature and Fiction | Fantasy
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.
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