Buried Giant
- Pages
- 317
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9780307271037
- Reading Time
- ~5h 33min
Buried Giant is a book by Kazuo Ishiguro. It has 317 pages.
About this book
Set in a mythic, post-Arthurian Britain, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant follows an elderly couple navigating a landscape shrouded in a mysterious mist that erases personal and communal memories. Through the lens of historical fantasy, Ishiguro examines how forgetting functions as both a protective mechanism and a destructive force. The novel explores the tension between individual recollection and collective amnesia, asking whether societies can truly heal without confronting their past. Written in deceptively simple prose that belies its philosophical depth, the work marks a deliberate departure from the author’s earlier realist fiction into an allegorical framework. Central to the narrative are questions of love, aging, and the moral weight of historical truth versus peaceful ignorance. Ishiguro’s signature restraint and psychological insight remain intact, even as he employs fairy-tale motifs such as wandering knights, ancient dragons, and enchanted landscapes to illuminate the human condition. The novel invites readers to consider what is lost when history is buried, and what remains when memory finally surfaces.
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Buried Giant has 317 pages.
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Set in a mythic, post-Arthurian Britain, Kazuo Ishiguro’s Buried Giant follows an elderly couple navigating a landscape shrouded in a mysterious mist that erases personal and communal memories. Through the lens of historical fantasy, Ishiguro examines how forgetting functions as both a protective me...
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Buried Giant was written by Kazuo Ishiguro.