The Buried Giant
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The Buried Giant
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Narrated by:
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David Horovitch
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By:
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Kazuo Ishiguro
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The extraordinary novel from the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and 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 in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.
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Critic reviews
"A deeply affecting portrait of marital love." (Guardian)
"A beautiful, heart-breaking book." (Observer)
King Arthur is dead, some of his Knights are alive but are now old men, Britons and Saxons live in relative peace, a mist of forgetfulness cover the county where ogres and dragons still exist, this mist envelops the very story with all kinds of insinuations and perils, the main characters a couple that travel looking for their lost memories and a son that they claim awaits them, she is an old woman, named Beatrice a name laden with meaning and possibility in literature, for she is the guide in Paradiso and Purgatory In the Divine Comedy, her name means beatific vision, that means seeing God finally face to face and not imperfectly through faith. With her travels her husband and older man Axl his name is more distant in meaning, but for a small give-away he refers to Beatrice as princes, Axël is a drama by Auguste Villiers de l'Isle-Adam about a Byronic hero with a Germanic princes, they speak of the amazing journeys never completed unlike in this story.
By now you begin to see that this book is reach and allegorical, full of hidden and and palpable minings. That develop in a dream like state, you meet a hero and within a few pages he reveals a side to himself that is tainted and dark; even the forgetfulness is a double sided blade; and the narrative voice hides mystery and meaning.
It will probably take me a long time to digest this book properly, and I will more than likely change my mind about some of these conclusions, but that is half the fun.
The reader of the story in perfect and maintains a cadence that to my ears is complementary to the story.
Can heroes or love survive the truth?
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Strangely wonderful, mesmerising!
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Where does The Buried Giant rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?
It's hard to compare to other things I've listened to- both the narration and the story were good and the best word I can think of to describe it is 'gentle' - it is an adventure story in a way but it's not fast paced or full of action - maybe because the story is about an old couple - it is still quite gripping though!What was one of the most memorable moments of The Buried Giant?
I found the ideas about memory really interesting and the end is sad and stays with you.Have you listened to any of David Horovitch’s other performances? How does this one compare?
No I haven't but I thought this performance was good I really forgot it was reading after a whileEerie story
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Magical story & excellent narration
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Powerful and Slow
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