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Published Mar 2015
336 pages
Genre: Fantasy, Sci-Fi, Speculative, Alt. History
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An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay . . ."
The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.
Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
"Starred Review. Lovely: a fairy tale for grown-ups, both partaking in and departing from a rich literary tradition." - Kirkus
"Starred Review. The Buried Giant is a slow, patient novel, decidedly unshowy but deliberate and precise - easy to read but difficult to forget." - Publishers Weekly
"Ishiguro's career spans over 30 years, highlighted by Booker winner The Remains of the Day and Whitbread winner An Artist of the Floating World, yet this quasifantasy falls short as the medium to deliver the author's lofty message." - Library Journal
"In Ishiguro's first novel since 2006 (Never Let Me Go), the award-winning author reinvents himself once again." - Booklist
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Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on November, 8 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey.
Afterwards he worked as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral before enrolling at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and Philosophy. He was also employed as a community worker in Glasgow (1976), and after graduating, worked as a residential social worker in London. He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia where he met Angela Carter, who became an early mentor. He has been writing full-time since 1982. In 1983, shortly after the publication of his first novel, Ishiguro was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20...
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