• Book Review

    The Buried Giant

    The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro   Imagine yourself in a familiar world with characters like the ones in the fairytales you grew up reading. Borrowed characters like ogres, knights, and dragons are common characters embedded in your psyche. Ishiguro uses familiar and dominant literary landscapes as essential components of The Buried Giant where Ishiguro opts for the known vs the unknown.   In The Buried Giant Beatrix and Axl, read like two elderly rabbits from a Beatrix Potter illustration, walk hand in hand, navigating the English countryside, often confused by the situation they are in search of the memories taken away by a mysterious mist. As they try to figure out who they are,…