A review by nealagrace
The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

4.0

this book was pretty magical. a fable, a romance, a quest for memory. I thought ishiguro’s writing worked so well in this melancholy fantasy. cried hard at the end. even outside of the writing and the characters, what an interesting exploration of trauma and the act of remembering. ishiguro always manages to ask big, terrifying questions, and while not give answers to those questions, he still presents to the reader people and situations and stories with such empathy and humanity, that I’m always left with some confusion but overall a deep appreciation for people and the complexity of life. I don’t know if any of that made sense. I loved the book, that’s the takeaway.