The next fortnightly book (although given the time of year it is likely it will really take more than fortnight) is Kazuo Ishiguro's The Buried Giant.
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954, but his family moved to Britain early on (his father was professional researcher in oceanography and joined the National Institute of Oceanography). As an adult, he began writing novels, which consistently did well, and in 2017, he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature. This makes him the eighth and most recent Laureate for the Nobel Prize in Literature who has come up for a fortnightly book. (The others are Henryk Sienkiewicz, Rudyard Kipling, Knut Hamsun, George Bernard Shaw, Sigrid Undset, John Steinbeck, and Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn.)
The Buried Giant was published in 2015 and won quite a few awards. It is set in Dark Age England, in the aftermath of the death of King Arthur. It follows two Britons, Axl and Beatrice, who are afflicted with 'the mist', a strange forgetfulness that seems to affect much of the population; they have a strong suspicion that they have a son, but cannot quite remember the details, and therefore set out on a quest to find him. In doing so, they will discover that there are secrets buried in the realm, secrets that no one wants to remember -- and yet also that are costly not to remember.
