If you felt a disturbance in the force earlier this week, it was probably just the Book Riot editorial team making both literal and spiritual exclamation points about it. news Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s next novel is a World War II spy story.
due out March 9, 2027 (bust that preorder button), Miss Lambert steps on danger It begins in 1938 London when a man leaving a performance at a music hall has a chance encounter with a mysterious woman. Knopf’s publisher and editor-in-chief, Jordan Pavlin, describes the book as “a blend of detective fiction and the kind of wit that PG Wodehouse was known for,” to which we say, “Let’s go.”
Ishiguro is no stranger to this setting – his 1989 novel remains of the day 1930s Britain also accounts for the experiments with style.
- never let Me Go (2005) is a frighteningly scientific dystopian board school novel about class, relationships, and medical ethics.
- buried giant (2015) offers a focus on memory through Arthurian legend.
- Clara and the Sun (2021) asks questions about technology and humanity in a story told through the perspective of an AI robot.
Check out Ishiguro’s backlist while you wait with us Zero to Well-Read Episode About this never let Me Go.
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