![]() ![]() Like all couples who have been together for a long time, they have wronged each other, and their challenge is to remember the bad with the good. Along the way, they help each other to remember their life together-a sometimes fearsome process. An elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, journey to find their son in a Medieval Britain beset by a magical, memory-destroying mist. That’s fitting, because his book is very much a story about marriage-and also of memory. According to Kazuo, his wife Lorna MacDougal read the first draft of the novel in 2005 and told him, “This will not do.” He put it away, and then, years later, he started over. British novelist Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for literature in 2015, the same year he published The Buried Giant. ![]()
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