书名：The Buried Giant石黑一雄：被掩埋的巨人

作者：Kazuo Ishiguro
出版社名称：Faber & Faber
出版时间：2016
语种：英语
ISBN：9780571315079
商品尺寸：12.9 x 2.3 x 19.8 cm
包装：平装
页数：384（以实物为准）
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。

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.

The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.

Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

Kazuo Ishiguro石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年出生于日本长崎，凭借1989年的名作《长日留痕》摘得英国“布克奖”，与奈保尔、拉什迪（《撒旦诗篇》作者）并称“英国文坛移民三雄”。

Kazuo Ishiguro is a Japanese-British novelist, screenwriter and short story writer. He is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world, having received four Man Booker Prize nominations, and winning the 1989 award for his novel The Remains of the Day. In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of “The 50 greatest British writers since 1945”.