07516cam a2200505 4500 234898667 TxAuBib 20140806120000.0 ||||||s2015||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780385353229 0385353227 3da139de-9bd2-4f38-bf52-1b499fa37099 OverDrive (Reserve ID) 1942679 OverDrive (Product ID) 85613 1942679 OverDrive (Product ID) TxAuBib Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- The Buried Giant [Libby] : A novel. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2015. Format: OverDrive Adobe EPUB eBook, Filesize: 2145kB. Format: OverDrive Kindle Book. Format: OverDrive OverDrive Read. Fantasy. Fiction. Literature. Historical Fiction. HTML:"If forced at knife-point to choose my favourite Ishiguro novel, I'd opt for The Buried Giant. It uses the tropes of fantasy to set up a smoke-screen which the book then, by twists and turns, dispels. This reveal gives the book a shadow-plot, and layers of mystery . . . An ideas-enabler, a metaphor-animator.". HTML:David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks. "Completely astonishing. I can't think of another writer who keeps finding such new and radically unexpected ways of exploring--and deepening--his lifelong concerns. Which is a way of saying that I can't think of another writer who's so unswervingly serious, as well as impeccable, stripping away every distraction to get to the core of things, as a Beckett might, and attaining in the end an almost unbearable intensity of emotional directness.". HTML:Pico Iyer, author of The Art of Stillness and The Lady and the Monk. HTML:"The Buried Giant does what important books do: It remains in the mind long after it has been read, refusing to leave, forcing one to turn it over and over . . . Ishiguro is not afraid to tackle huge, personal themes, nor to use myths, history and the fantastic as the tools to do it. The Buried Giant is an exceptional novel.". HTML:Neil Gaiman, The New York Times Book Review. HTML:"Ishiguro is a brilliant novelist, a born novelist. . . . Inside his work, you feel it, that thrilling thing: a writer doing something actually different, something actually new. . . . [The Buried Giant] creates an entire field of unspoken meaning, illuminating the kind of elusive truths about love, time, death and memory that other novelists have to strain even to brush. . . . That's the magic of true art. . . . When one day we send some unmanned capsule into the nameless depths of space to give and account of ourselves, it's [Ishiguro's] books I would include on our behalf.". HTML:Charles Finch, Chicago Tribune. "Ishiguro is one of Britain's best living novelists . . . Magnificent and heartbreaking . . . Of all writers working in the early 21st century, he will turn out to be the one who persisted--who went on asking questions about what binds people to one another; who said something profound about history, and something unsentimental about love.". HTML:Gaby Wood, The Telegraph (London.) "The weirdest, riskiest and most ambitious thing he's published in his celebrated 33-year career.". HTML:Alexandra Alter, The New York Times. "Ishiguro works this fantastical material with the tools of a master realist. . . . [He] makes us feel its sheer grotesque monstrosity with a force and freshness that have been leached away by legions of computer-generated orcs. . . . He keeps a straight face, but Ishiguro has fun with the swords and sorcery: he's a lifelong fan of samurai manga and westerns, and some of the action has the feel of a classic showdown scored by Ennio Morricone.". HTML:Lev Grossman, Time magazine. HTML:"Ishiguro is in full genre-occupying mode here, settling an imaginative region, capturing its tropes and conditions, and establishing within it his own peculiar sovereignty. . . . For all that The Buried Giant clothes itself in the armor of chivalric romance and fantasy, it is also subtly using these formal structures to subvert from within the kinds of national mythologies that are so often built around them. . . . Devastating . . . as emotionally ruinous an ending as any I've read in a very long time, and it made me circle back to the opening pages, to re-enter the strange mist of this sad and remarkable book.". Mark O'Connell, Slate. HTML:"[The Buried Giant is] a profound examination of memory and guilt, of the way we recall past trauma en masse. It is also an extraordinarily atmospheric and compulsively readable tale, to be devoured in a single gulp. The Buried Giant is Game of Thrones with a conscience, The Sword in the Stone for the age of the trauma industry, a beautiful, heartbreaking book about the duty to remember and the urge to forget.". HTML:Alex Preston, The Guardian (London.) HTML:"Lifetimes of myth, allegory, and epic discoveries are contained within . . . In this as with Ishiguro's previous fiction, the mesmerizing prose ensures that the pages will turn swiftly. Without a doubt, Giant is Ishiguro's most complex book thus far, managing to combine elements of Edenic epic, Roman myth, Arthurian quest, Tolkien fantasy. HTML:Marie Arana, The Washington Post. HTML:From the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day The Romans have long since departed and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But, at least, the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. Axl and Beatrice, a couple of elderly Britons, decide that now is the time, finally, for them to set off across this troubled land of mist and rain to find the son they have not seen for years, the son they can scarcely remember. They know they will face many hazards--some strange and otherworldly--but they cannot foresee how their journey will reveal to them the dark and forgotten corners of their love for each other. Nor can they foresee that they will be joined on their journey by a Saxon warrior, his orphan charge, and a knight--each of them, like Axl and Beatrice, lost in some way to his own past, but drawn inexorably toward the comfort, and the burden, of the fullness of a life's memories. Sometimes savage, sometimes mysterious, always intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade tells a luminous story about the act of forgetting and the power of memory, a resonant tale of love, vengeance, and war. From the Hardcover edition.. Media Type: eBook. The New York Times Best Seller List. 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