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Lourdes's blogMONDAY, JANUARY 22, 2018
THE BURIED GIANT, A NOVEL OF THE NOBEL PRIZE OF LITERATURE WINNER KAZUO ISHIGURO.
Hello my friends! Hi my nerdy readers! Thanks for always being there. I am back with a book I am reading just now.I hope you found my review so interesting and intriguing that you are curious about this author and his dystopic atmospheres.
The story follows Axl and Beatrice, an elderly married couple, on a hazardous cross-country trek in search of their son, lost in circumstances that, like much else, they cannot recall. Legend has it that a dragon exhales a memory-wiping mist that accounts for other people's pasts, too. The dragon is not merely present in the novel, but lies at the very heart of its plot.
The novel starts the Middle-Ages in an unnamed village lost in the countryside. Tendrils of mist curl around villages in which Saxons and Britons live at peace. The fog is not only present in the plot but in the design of writing, sometimes you can think that you are in much the way of a dream. At times, the narrator speaks as though from the present day and, other times Ishiguro gives us an ostensibly historical novel.
I can thoroughly recommend this novel because it is a heartwarming and original story. The writing style is awesome, matching with the story in a hair-raising way. And, at any given point, is a deeply affectionate portrait of marital love and of how even the most precious memories can end up being vulnerable.
Posted by Lourdes at 20:00 PM
Labels: Kazuo Ishiguro, The buried giant, books reviewed in 2018, Nobel prize of literature winner.
You don't know how much I've enjoyed your review as I believe it totally captures the atmospheric story you've read.
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