The Buried Giant

Author: Kazuo Ishiguro

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  • : $22.99 AUD
  • : 9780571315079
  • : Faber
  • : Faber Paperback
  • : December 2015
  • : 24.99
  • : March 2016
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  • : Kazuo Ishiguro
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Barcode 9780571315079
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Local Description

Beautiful and unusual. Set in an imagined post Arthurian Britain with the themes of the loss of memory both on a community and the effect on an aged couple. Wonderful. ->SARAH

Description

The extraordinary novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other-worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

Awards

Shortlisted for Bookseller Industry Awards Fiction Book of the Year 2016.