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The Buried Giant

AuthorKazuo Ishiguro

NarratorDavid Horovitch

Duration11h 56m

CategoriesAdult Fiction, Historical Novels

PublisherFaber & Faber

VersionUnabridged

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The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at last 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 otherworldly - 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 and war.

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