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About the Book

The Buried Giant

From the author of NEVER LET ME GO and the Booker Prize-winning THE REMAINS OF THE DAY
 
In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven’t seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him.

As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. By turns savage, suspenseful and intensely moving, THE BURIED GIANT is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory, an extraordinary tale of love, vengeance and war.

The Buried Giant
by Kazuo Ishiguro