The Buried Giant

from zappa

The Buried Giant sort of snuck up on me really. Several rainy days on a holiday led me to the warm embrace of a fine second-hand bookshop. I saw The Buried Giant, amongst a few other gems, and added it to my pile. Vaguely I remembered reading Ishiguro some other time: a check when I returned to m...

from Castlelass

Fantasy that reads like a fable based on Arthurian legends. It is England after King Arthur's death. The Britons and Saxons live in an uneasy peace. A mist has descended on the country, causing forgetfulness. An older couple, Axl and Beatrice, are living in darkness in a warren. They decide to go...

from msf59

"Be merciful and leave this place. Leave this country to rest in forgetfulness." "Are you still there, Axl?" "Still here, princess." Axl and Beatrice are an elderly couple, who decide to cross the country, to visit their son. They have not seen him in many years. It is the Dark Ages, sometime aft...

from gendeg

For all the brouhaha about a literary writer doing a genre book, after reading The Buried Giant, I've realized that Kazuo Ishiguro is really using all the Arthurian fantasy tropes as a stylist rather than as a narrative focus. So he's not really writing fantasy nor is he engaging with the genre i...

from whitewavedarling

In the beginning, this is a simple and quiet book, building layers upon mysteries and absent emotions as it begins. For Ishiguro fans, it will be both familiar and strange--there's that beauty of language, that simplicity of emotion, and that twist of character...but the interior is oddly apart. ...