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'{{Infobox book | name = The Buried Giant | image = The Buried Giant.png | image_size = | alt = | caption = UK first-edition cover | author = [[Kazuo Ishiguro]] | illustrator = | cover_artist = | country = United Kingdom | subject = | genre = Fantasy | set_in = [[Sub-Roman Britain]] | published = {{unbulleted list|3 March 2015:<br>[[Faber & Faber]] <small>(United Kingdom)</small><br>[[Random House]] <small>(United States)</small>}} | media_type = Hardcover | pages = 352 | awards = | isbn = 978-0571315031 | oclc = | dewey = | congress = | preceded_by = [[Nocturnes (book)|Nocturnes]] | followed_by = }} '''''The Buried Giant''''' is the seventh novel by British writer [[Kazuo Ishiguro]], published in March 2015.<ref> Hannah Furness. "[http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/art/art-news/11140821/Kazuo-Ishiguro-My-wife-thought-first-draft-of-The-Buried-Giant-was-rubbish.html Kazuo Ishiguro: My wife thought first draft of The Buried Giant was rubbish]". ''[[The Daily Telegraph|The Telegraph]]''. 4 October 2014.</ref><ref>John Sutherland. "[http://www.thetimes.co.uk/tto/arts/books/fiction/article4357012.ece ''The Buried Giant'' by Kazuo Ishiguro]". ''[[The Times]]''. February 21 2015.</ref><ref>Alexandra Alter. "[http://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/books/for-kazuo-ishiguro-the-buried-giant-is-a-departure.html?_r=0 For Kazuo Ishiguro, 'The Buried Giant' Is a Departure]". ''[[The New York Times]]''. February 19, 2015</ref> ==Plot Summary== Axl and Beatrice are an old Briton couple living in a time where people seem to be unable to perceive the past clearly. Upon remembering once having had a son, they journey to visit him. On the way they become involved with a mysterious Saxon warrior called Wistan, the old-fashioned knight Gawain, and a child, Edwin, on the run from a village where he is wanted dead due to the properties of an ogre bite he is mistakenly assumed to have received. It is eventually revealed that Axl and Sir Gawain once served under [[King Arthur]] who won a long and terrible war against the Saxons by murdering their women and children behind their backs. In order to prevent the Saxons from seeking revenge and thus keep peace, Arthur had Merlin cast a spell over the land, clouding everyone's memory. The travelers reluctantly decide to lift the spell despite the highly likely outcome of a new war. Throughout the novel, the moral conflict is mirrored in the troubles of Axl and Beatrice's relationship. On one hand they feel that remembering their past will make their love truer, on the other they worry that something in their past will ruin their current positive view of the relationship. In the final chapter of the novel, upon regaining their memories, their love is finally judged to be false by a mysterious ferryman. ==References== {{reflist}} ==External links== *[http://theburiedgiant.co.uk/ Official website] *[http://www.randomhouse.com/book/85613/the-buried-giant-by-kazuo-ishiguro ''The Buried Giant''] at Random House {{Kazuo Ishiguro}} {{DEFAULTSORT:Buried Giant}} [[Category:2015 novels]] [[Category:Faber and Faber books]] [[Category:British novels]] [[Category:Novels by Kazuo Ishiguro]]'