The Buried Giant

De: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrado por: David Horovitch

Duración: 11 h y 48 m

Resumen del Editor

The extraordinary novel 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.

The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards—some strange and other-worldly—but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another.

Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel since Never Let Me Go is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.

©2015 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2017 Vintage Canada

Reseñas de la Crítica

Longlisted for the 2017 International Dublin Literary Award

Longlisted for the 2017 Yasnaya Polyana Literary Award

Finalist for the 2016 World Fantasy Award - Novels

Shortlisted for the 2016 British Book Industry Award for Fiction

Longlisted for the 2015 Kirkus Prize

“The Buried Giant is remarkably different from anything he’s written before, a ‘western-cum-samurai-cum-fantasy novel,’ as he puts it, that is at once an exploration of memory and the way it deceives, a comment on religion and the way it divides, and a study of how personal and societal resentment is passed down from one generation to the next—a topic with modern-day resonance.” (Mark Medley, The Globe and Mail)

“Kazuo Ishiguro is a remarkable novelist, both for the quality of his work—because his novels share a careful, precise approach to language and to character—and because he does not ever write the same novel, or even the same type of novel, twice. . . . Fantasy and historical fiction and myth here run together with the Matter of Britain, in a novel that’s easy to admire, to respect and to enjoy. . . . The Buried Giant does what important books do: It remains in the mind long after it has been read, refusing to leave, forcing one to turn it over and over. . . . Ishiguro is not afraid to tackle huge, personal themes, nor to use myths, history and the fantastic as the tools to do it. The Buried Giant is an exceptional novel.” (Neil Gaiman, The New York Times Book Review)

Excellently Read

A masterful writer coupled with a masterful reader. The story is poignant; allegorical without swerving into pedantry. Bravo!