In Giant the fog never seemed to lift, and while this may well have been the author’s intention, it made it hard for me to feel connected to the story.Ī brain-fuddling fog is indeed very much part of the narrative, as the characters themselves experience and describe it. Though in those other books Ishiguro brilliantly worked with unreliable narration and hidden realities, in the end an astute reader was able to figure out what was going on. I had been wowed by The Remains of the Day, and absorbed by Never Let Me Go, but I had a harder time getting into this one. Intrigued by the synchronicity, I embarked on my third Ishiguro novel. The magic of Witch Week may be stronger than we realize… A few days after I announced that The Buried Giant would be our Witch Week readalong book, author Kazuo Ishiguro became a Nobel Laureate.
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