The Remains of the Day Author Kazuo Ishiguro to Publish First Novel in Ten Years

Posted on April 4, 2014

British publisher Faber & Faber announced the it will publish the next novel by bestselling author Kazuo Ishiguro. Ishiguro is the award-winning author of The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, Serono Literary Prize, Casino de Santiago European Novel Award, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize). The Remains of the Day was made in to a film starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, and Never Let Me Go was adapted into a feature film starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.

His new novel will be called The Buried Giant and will hit bookstores on March 5, 2015. Stephen Page, the CEO of Faber & Faber, shared his excitement over the highly anticipated novel, "A new Kazuo Ishiguro novel, ten years on from Never Let Me Go, is a huge moment for us as a company, and The Buried Giant is a truly sublime new chapter in one of the most significant bodies of work of anyone writing today. It is as surprising, moving and brilliant as you could hope for, and we can't wait to publish."

Faber says in a statement that the new novel is "Sometimes savage, often intensely moving." The statement is a bit short on details saying only that the book is about "lost memories, love, revenge and war." Well, that certainly sounds intriguing. The book will be published in the U.S. by Knopf.