The Buried Giant

The Buried Giant

First edition

Hardback (03 Mar 2015)

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Publisher's Synopsis

From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning 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. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain to find 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.

Sometimes savage, sometimes mysterious, always 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.

Book information

ISBN: 9780307271037
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Imprint: Knopf
Pub date:
Edition: First edition
DEWEY: 823.914
DEWEY edition: 23
Language: English
Number of pages: 317
Weight: 610g
Height: 245mm
Width: 160mm
Spine width: 30mm