John Boyne includes Zelda video game monsters in a novel

The novelist says the main points of a careless Google search are “pretty funny” and that he will leave his ebook as it is after the reader has seen Octoroks and Lizalfos in their new eebook.

Last modified: August 4, 2020 04.37 BST

John Boyne, the award-winning writer of The Boy in the Striped Pyjamas, claimed that an undeniable Google led him to come with monsters from the popular video game The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild in his new novel.

A traveler at the gates of Boyne’s wisdom opened in 1 AD and ended 2,000 years later, following a narrator and his family. In one section, the narrator agrees to poison Attila the Hun, adding ingredients an “Octorok eyeball” and “the tail of red lyflans and 4 champis hylienianos”.

Everything is fine. It’s a thread, but it’s worth it, I promise. Today on Reddit, user u/NoNoNo_OhOhOh has published a page of the most recent e-book by prominent Irish novelist John Boyne, “The Traveler at the Gates of Wisdom”. pic.twitter.com/4RTgZxtUT7

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