09-07-2021, 07:13 AM
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro
The Nobel and Booker prize winning author of Remains of the Day brings you a fantasy novel base in a post-Arthurian Britain.
Axl and Brittany, an older couple suffering memory loss, decide it is time to go to the next village to see their son after many years apart. Along the way they meet a warrior on a mission to slay a dragon, a boy bitten by a ghoul who might become a ghoul and Sir Gawain. On the journey they also come to the realization that maybe their memory loss is unnatural since so many people suffer from it.
Some of the book is allegory. Some of it is straight up adventure story. All of it is slow and ponderous. None of the narrators are reliable. At the end, the story was kind of interesting but I had to do a lot of work to figure out what was going on. It's the kind of book you need to read the cliff notes for to really understand the book.
The Nobel and Booker prize winning author of Remains of the Day brings you a fantasy novel base in a post-Arthurian Britain.
Axl and Brittany, an older couple suffering memory loss, decide it is time to go to the next village to see their son after many years apart. Along the way they meet a warrior on a mission to slay a dragon, a boy bitten by a ghoul who might become a ghoul and Sir Gawain. On the journey they also come to the realization that maybe their memory loss is unnatural since so many people suffer from it.
Some of the book is allegory. Some of it is straight up adventure story. All of it is slow and ponderous. None of the narrators are reliable. At the end, the story was kind of interesting but I had to do a lot of work to figure out what was going on. It's the kind of book you need to read the cliff notes for to really understand the book.
As a matter of fact, my anger does keep me warm