The Buried Giant, by Kazuo Ishiguro, takes place after the war between the Britons and the Saxons. It is the story of Axl and Beatrice, an elderly Briton couple who leave their village on a quest to find a son they can barely remember. As their journey continues, its purpose grows to include discovering and destroying what has caused the loss of memory in everyone in the land. All the while, the characters must face the dilemma of wanting to restore memories which help define humans and their relationships versus letting memories that can cause ill-will and destruction rest.
"When I write a novel perhaps some part of me wants to offer in a book an experience that you can't get easily sitting in front of a cinema screen or a television screen," novelist Kazuo Ishiguro told...
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Kazuo Ishiguro's literary reputation was established by three novels published over seven years: A Pale View of Hills won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first nov...
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro