Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is due to be released next March.
The novel will be the first from the celebrated author since 2005's Never Let Me Go, which was set in a dystopian near future and whose film adaptation starred Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield.
The new novel, The Buried Giant was described by Ishiguro’s publisher Faber & Faber as "sometimes savage (and) often intensely moving". The publisher declared that Ishiguro's seventh novel will be about "lost memories, love, revenge and war".
Stephen Page, Faber’s chief executive, said that the book was "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."
In 2008, Ishiguro told the Paris Review that he had "arrived at an odd setting for the novel I'm writing at the moment."
"I'd wanted for some time to write a novel about how societies remember and forget," the author declared. "I'd written about how individuals come to terms with uncomfortable memories. It occurred to me that the way an individual remembers and forgets is quite different to the way a society does. When is it better to just forget?"
Ishiguro won the Booker prize in 1989 for his novel, The Remains of the Day, set between the wars in the English mansion Darlington Hall, and narrated by the ageing butler Stevens. The Remains of the Day was also adapted for film, starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins.
