The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go: an extraordinary new novel set in the haunting terrain of medieval England, populated with ogres and dragons, centered on two quietly determined travelers driven by love and loss.
The Romans have long since left Britain, and the country is steadily declining into ruin. But the wars that once ravaged the land have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, are finally able to set off in search of 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. By turns savage, mysterious, and 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.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go: an extraordinary new novel set in the haunting terrain of medieval England, populated with ogres and dragons, centered on two quietly determined travelers driven by love and loss.
The Romans have long since left Britain, and the country is steadily declining into ruin. But the wars that once ravaged the land have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, are finally able to set off in search of 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. By turns savage, mysterious, and 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.
From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go: an extraordinary new novel set in the haunting terrain of medieval England, populated with ogres and dragons, centered on two quietly determined travelers driven by love and loss.
The Romans have long since left Britain, and the country is steadily declining into ruin. But the wars that once ravaged the land have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, are finally able to set off in search of 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. By turns savage, mysterious, and 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.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages, and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, both made into acclaimed films, have each sold more than 2 million copies. He was given a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.
