NATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature
and author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning novel The
Remains of the Day comes a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting
and the power of memory.
In post-Arthurian Britain, the wars that once raged between the Saxons
and the Britons have finally ceased. Axl and Beatrice, an elderly
British couple, set off to visit their son, whom they haven't seen in
years. And, because a strange mist has caused mass amnesia throughout
the land, they can scarcely remember anything about him. As they are
joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and an
illustrious knight, Axl and Beatrice slowly begin to remember the dark
and troubled past they all share.
By turns savage, suspenseful, and intensely moving, The Buried Giant
is a luminous meditation on the act of forgetting and the power of
memory.