“Ishiguro's new novel is a work of wonder, transport, and beauty. A recurrent theme in his earlier books, always shown with great originality, is the matter of what happens after we have lost our way. In The Buried Giant, Ishiguro explores losing direction, memory, and certainty, as the primary characters cling to remnants of codes of behavior and belief. Which is the way through the forest? Where might our son be? And where is the dragon, and who shall seek to slay her? Set in the time just after King Arthur's reign, Ishiguro's tale, with striking, fable-like rhythm and narrative, shows how losing and finding our way runs long, deep, and to the core of things.”
— Rick Simonson, The Elliott Bay Book Company, Seattle, WA
It’s hard for me to describe how this book moved me. The elegiac descriptions of landscapes shrouded in mist, the inherent longing and loss of the characters, the underlying tenseness of roiling anger, the connection to myths, the truth and the lies in memory and in the forgetting of all those things. Absolutely one of the best books I have read in years and one I will be returning to again and again.
— Daniel
I loved this foggy and atmospheric post-Arthurian tale. Axl and Beatrice are our main characters, an elderly couple that decides to venture through the English countryside in search of a son they believe they had years back and are now suddenly remembering. The novel has many elements of Athurian fantasy, but the true heart of this story is memory and how it holds our trauma and shapes our guilt.
— From Lexi's Staff Picks
