{"product_id":"the-buried-giant","title":"The Buried Giant","description":"\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eKazuo Ishiguro\u003c\/b\u003e is the 2017 winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. His work has been translated into more than 40 languages. Both \n\u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go \u003c\/i\u003ehave sold more than 1 million copies, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. Ishiguro's other work includes \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant, \u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003ci\u003eNocturnes, A Pale View of the Hills, \u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eAn Artist of the Floating World\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"Spectacular. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant\u003c\/i\u003e has the clear ring of legend, as graceful, original and humane as anything Ishiguro has written.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"An exceptional novel. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant\u003c\/i\u003e does what important books do: It remains in the mind long after it has been read, refusing to leave.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"Lush and thrilling, rolling the gothic, fantastical, political, and philosophical into one.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe New Republic\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Mesmerizing. . . . A provocative, multilayered mosaic. . . . Lifetimes of myth, allegory, and epic discoveries are contained within.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Christian Science Monitor\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A literary tour de force so unassuming that you don't realize until the last page that you're reading a masterpiece.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eUSA Today\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Splendid. . . . Excellent. . . . \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant\u003c\/i\u003e is a simple and powerful tale of love, aging and loss.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Wall Street Journal\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Ishiguro is a master of the uncanny. . . . Few write about the mysteries of the human experience with such grace as Ishiguro, and his prodigious gifts are evident throughout the novel.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eSan Francisco Chronicle\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Devastating . . . As emotionally ruinous an ending as any I've read in a very long time, and it made me circle back to the opening pages, to re-enter the strange mist of this sad and remarkable book.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Mark O'Connell, \u003ci\u003eSlate\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A profound meditation on trauma, memory, and the collective lies nations and groups create to expiate their guilt.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Boston Globe\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"If forced at knife-point to choose my favorite Ishiguro novel, I'd opt for \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant.\u003c\/i\u003e It uses the tropes of fantasy to set up a smoke-screen which the book then, by twists and turns, dispels. This reveal gives the book a shadow-plot, and layers of mystery . . . An ideas-enabler, a metaphor-animator.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--David Mitchell, author of \u003ci\u003eCloud Atlas \u003c\/i\u003eand \u003ci\u003eThe Bone Clocks\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"Ishiguro is a deft gut-renovator of genres, bringing fresh life and feeling to hollowed-out conventions. . . . The love story at its center shimmers with a mythic and melancholy grace.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eVulture\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A beautiful, heartbreaking book about the duty to remember and the urge to forget.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Powerful and disturbing. . . . Provokes strong emotions--and lingers long in the mind.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Economist\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e \"A beautiful fable with a hard message at its core. . . . There won't, I suspect, be a more important work of fiction published this year than \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant\u003c\/i\u003e.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--John Sutherland, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e (London)\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"A novel of imaginative daring that, in its subtleties of tone, mood and reflection, could be the work of no other writer. . . . In the manner of Cormac McCarthy's \n\u003ci\u003eThe Road, \u003c\/i\u003eIshiguro has created a fantastical alternate reality in which, in spite of the extremity of its setting and because of its integrity and emotional truth, you believe unhesitatingly.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--\u003ci\u003eFinancial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e and the Booker Prize-winning novel \u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark and troubled past they all share. \n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eBy turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, \n\u003ci\u003eThe Buried Giant\u003c\/i\u003e is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of memory.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/24\/2016 pg. 24 (EAN 9780307455796, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal Prepub Alert\u003c\/span\u003e 10\/01\/2014 pg. 62 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2015 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2015 pg. 35 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/19\/2015 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/01\/2015 pg. 72 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/10\/2015 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/08\/2015 pg. 30 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eEntertainment Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/13\/2015 pg. 62 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2015 pg. 1 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew Yorker (The)\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/23\/2015 pg. 92 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eNew York Review of Books\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/02\/2015 pg. 44 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 10\/01\/2014 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eWilson Fiction Catalog\u003c\/span\u003e 04\/11\/2019 (EAN 9780307271037, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Ishiguro, Kazuo\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePub Date:\u003c\/b\u003e 2016-01-05\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBISAC:\u003c\/b\u003e Fiction|Literary|Fiction|Fantasy|Historical|Fiction|Action \u0026amp; Adventure\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSubjects:\u003c\/b\u003e Husband and wife|Quests (Expeditions)|Sons|Knights and knighthood|Dragons|Amnesiacs|Great Britain|History|Anglo-Saxon period, 449-1066|Fantasy fiction|Historical fiction\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.55 lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780307455796\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eASIN:\u003c\/b\u003e -\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSKU:\u003c\/b\u003e SP-9780307455796\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Vintage","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51154253283606,"sku":"SP-9780307455796","price":28.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780307455796_spiral.png?v=1774939507","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/the-buried-giant","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}