It's very important to their relationship, to their marriage. And this couple feel - before it's too late - they want to recover their precious memories. The premise of this story is that there's some kind of a mist all over the land, which makes people forget. They think they remember they have a son. Kazuo Ishiguro is also the author of T he Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go. As a novelist, I wanted to retreat to something a little bit more metaphorical." I didn't want to write a book that looked like a piece of reportage. But I didn't really, in the end, want to set it down in any of those particular settings. "I was tempted to look at the actual contemporary events: The disintegration of Yugoslavia, the Rwanda genocide, France in the years after the Second World War. Ishiguro tells NPR's Scott Simon that he wanted to write about the way societies remember (or forget) their histories, their dark secrets. It's set in post-Arthurian England - but The Buried Giant is no Camelot, with noble royals, clever sorcerers, strutting steeds, and bold adventures. The Man Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day has gone even deeper into history to write a story that's both one couple's on-the-road tale, and a mystery for a great civilization. Kazuo Ishiguro has written his first novel in ten years - making it both a literary event and a news story. Your purchase helps support NPR programming. Close overlay Buy Featured Book Title The Buried Giant Author Kazuo Ishiguro
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