Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is like nothing he's ever written before though many of the themes he likes to explore - memory, connections, how past, present and future interweave, are there. Axl and Beatrice live in a post-Roman Britain that owes more to Arthurian legend than anything else. Their community and it seems all those around them are suffering from memory loss and so they set off on a quest to find the son who they have only a vague memory of. On the way they meet knights and dragons and discover more about themselves and their lives than they knew even before they forgot. Haunting and unusual.
Text in Arabic. You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay..." The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, The Buried Giant is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
