For a limited time only, you can download Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant for only 5.99$ here.
Here's the blurb:
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.
2 commentaires:
Prince of Fools by Mark Lawrence is only $1.99 today on Amazon! Woot woot!
great find on the Prince of Fools, I think Lawrence is one of the top guys writing in the genre today. Also couldn't pass up the Buried Giant. I loved Rosemary Sutcliff's Dark ages Britain books back in High School, and I live in Japan, so an author like Ishiguro who might bring some of the subtleties of that culture to a fantastic/historic British setting seemed too good to pass up at the price.
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