The Buried Giant

Kazuo Ishiguro 2015

Devastation Rating

Emotionally Ruined
memory marriage England history

Our Take

An elderly British couple travel through post-Arthurian England in a fog of collective amnesia. Ishiguro's question is whether some forgetting is a mercy and what happens when memory returns. The final pages answer the question about the marriage and the question about history simultaneously.

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