A visiting Saxon warrior, Wistan, kills the ogres and rescues Edwin who is discovered to have a wound, believed to be an ogre-bite. They stay at a Saxon village where two ogres have dragged off a boy named Edwin. Although barely able to remember, they feel sure that they once had a son, and they decide to travel to a village several days' walk away to seek him out. Along with everyone else in their community, Axl and Beatrice, an elderly Briton couple, suffer from severe selective amnesia that they call the 'mist'. Plot summary įollowing the death of King Arthur, Saxons and Britons live in harmony. It also placed sixth in the 2016 Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel. The book was nominated for the 2016 World Fantasy Award for best novel, and the 2016 Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature. After dimly recalling that they might years earlier have had a son, the couple decide to travel to a neighbouring village to seek him out. The novel follows an elderly Briton couple, Axl and Beatrice, living in a fictional post- Arthurian England in which no-one is able to retain long-term memories. The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.
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