![]() ![]() ![]() Everyone seems to be under the spell of forgetting, due to the “mist” which surrounds the land. The setting is Britain in 450 AD, and the two main characters, elderly husband and wife Axl and Beatrice, are on something of a quest to reach their son’s village, and perhaps recover some of their lost memories. The actual revelation doesn’t truly arrive until the very end, and even then, much remains unclear. At the surface, surprisingly little happens, though the novel always seems on the brink of revelation and transition. So much happens in subtext that it’s as if inference were the main plot, drawing meaning through layers of allegory. The Buried Giant has all the hallmarks of classic Ishiguro. Faber Fiction (Distributed in Australia by Allen & Unwin) ![]()
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