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From BBC Radio 4 - Book at Bedtime:
David Suchet reads The Buried Giant, the powerful new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day.
"It's queer the way the world's forgetting people and things from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness come over us all."
The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping away from them. T ...more
David Suchet reads The Buried Giant, the powerful new novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Never Let Me Go and Remains of the Day.
"It's queer the way the world's forgetting people and things from only yesterday and the day before that. Like a sickness come over us all."
The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. In this desolate, uncultivated land of mist and rain, people find that their memories are slipping away from them. T ...more
Update 16 Dec 2015: I am upping this to 5 stars. Why? Because it has been a group read in a couple of my groups in the last year, giving me lots of time to think and discuss. And I can still remember the story, and I think about it. Just a really really excellent and original book.
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Wow! 4.5 stars. I don't know that I would give this 5--it weakened a bit in the last 50 pages--but at the same time I think maybe I need to read it again? Or maybe the issue is my lack of knowledge of English his ...more
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Wow! 4.5 stars. I don't know that I would give this 5--it weakened a bit in the last 50 pages--but at the same time I think maybe I need to read it again? Or maybe the issue is my lack of knowledge of English his ...more
Interesting story and easy to read. Not monumental, but entertaining.
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E o último capítulo... ah, o último capítulo...10⭐️
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E o último capítulo... ah, o último capítulo...10⭐️
I think someone once said that one secret to a happy marriage is to develop forgetfulness. There's something to be said about it, like how I will be glad once I forget I've ever read this book.
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