The Buried Giant Contributor(s): Ishiguro, Kazuo (Author) |
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ISBN: 030727103X ISBN-13: 9780307271037 Publisher: Knopf Publishing Group
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: March 2015 * Out of Print * |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Historical - General - Fiction | Fantasy - Historical |
Dewey: 823.914 |
LCCN: 2014028378 |
Physical Information: 1.3" H x 6.5" W x 9.3" L (1.30 lbs) 336 pages |
Features: Price on Product |
Review Citations: Library Journal Prepub Alert 10/01/2014 pg. 62 Kirkus Reviews 01/01/2015 Booklist 01/01/2015 pg. 35 Publishers Weekly 01/19/2015 Library Journal 02/01/2015 pg. 72 BookPage 03/01/2015 Shelf Awareness 03/10/2015 New York Times Book Review 03/08/2015 pg. 30 Entertainment Weekly 03/13/2015 pg. 62 New York Times Book Review 03/01/2015 pg. 1 New Yorker (The) 03/23/2015 pg. 92 New York Review of Books 04/02/2015 pg. 44 Library Journal 10/01/2014 |
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Publisher Description: 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. |
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