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This book is my second of Ishiguro's. I previously read Never Let Me Go, which I didn't really enjoy. I liked The Buried Giant more so, but I still don't feel like I've gotten to the point where I can call myself an Ishiguro fan.
Axl and Beatrice are a husband and wife who go on a quest to find their lost son. Neither of the two can remember much about him or what had happened to him, because there is a fog over the lands that clouds their memories. Along their journey, the two have numerous adve ...more
Axl and Beatrice are a husband and wife who go on a quest to find their lost son. Neither of the two can remember much about him or what had happened to him, because there is a fog over the lands that clouds their memories. Along their journey, the two have numerous adve ...more
May 29, 2015
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The simplistic style in which this is written belies the content. To me it reads like a parable, very different from Ishiguro's previous work. Everyone in the story has lost their memory, although a few are starting to get wisps of it back. The rest of the tale revolves around whether or not this is a good thing. The ending startled me a bit- I had to read it several times to realise that it could only have ended like that.
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