Knopf Canada announces publication of new Kazuo Ishiguro novel

TORONTO, April 4, 2014 /CNW/ - On the eve of the London Book Fair, Knopf Canada is thrilled to announce publication of Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel entitled: THE BURIED GIANT. The novel will be published by Knopf Canada on March 5, 2015. Louise Dennys, Executive Publisher, Random House of Canada acquired Canadian rights from Deborah Rogers at RCW.

Louise Dennys said "To have been Kazuo Ishiguro's publisher for over 20 years is the greatest privilege and joy. And THE BURIED GIANT is his most beautifully original yet. I know his readers will be captivated by the imaginative and emotional power of his stunning new novel."

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

Publication will be a global event. The following publishers have already acquired the novel: UK: Faber; US: Knopf; Brazil: Companhia Das Letras; China: STPH; France: Deux Terres; Germany: Blessing; Holland: Contact Atlas; Italy: Einaudi: Japan: Hayakawa; Russia: Eksmo; Spain: Anagrama (Spanish and Catalan); Turkey: Yapi Kredi

Vintage Canada will also re-issue Ishiguro's renowned, bestselling novel Remains of the Day in August 2014. For further news about Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel, please sign up at TheBuriedGiant.com.

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and lived in Britain from the age of five. He is the author of six novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), 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, winner of the Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, Serono Literary Prize, Casino de Santiago European Novel Award, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize). Nocturnes (2009) was awarded the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa International Literary Prize. 

In 1995 Ishiguro received the Order of the British Empire for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres.

Both The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have been adapted into highly acclaimed films, The Remains of the Day starring Emma Thompson and Anthony Hopkins, Never Let Me Go starring Keira Knightley, Carey Mulligan and Andrew Garfield. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, have each sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies around the world.

'Kazuo Ishiguro is a master storyteller, in a class of his own making.' Independent

'An original and remarkable genius' The New York Times

'A master craftsman.' Margaret Atwood

'The best and most original writer of his generation.' Susan Hill

SOURCE: Random House of Canada Limited

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