37. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

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You Might Hate This Book

Hannah Graves and Stephanie Pearson

48 episodes

9 months ago

Hi! We're co-hosts Hannah and Stephanie. We're both avid readers, but we have VERY different tastes. Each week one of us will recommend a book to the other - a book we loved that we think our co-host might hate. We’ll read the recommended book, then come back together to discuss it - and maybe fight about it. Was it as awful as we expected? Did we secretly love it? Did we throw it across the room? Join us each week as we argue about what makes a good book, and broaden our horizons. Maybe you'll find a book you love (or hate).

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37. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

You Might Hate This Book

1 hour 4 minutes 56 seconds

2 years ago

37. The Buried Giant by Kazuo Ishiguro

This week, Hannah takes Stephanie back to their very first episode by assigning another Kazuo Ishiguro novel, The Buried Giant. Will Stephanie hate this one as much as she disliked Never Let Me Go?

In post-Arthurian Britain, where a dragon sleeps guarded by Sir Gawain and a mist of forgetfulness covers the land, an elderly couple named Axl and Beatrice search for their son. As they encounter neighbors who can no longer remember the war that once pitted them against each other, the couple slowly starts to recover their memory and finds that their love will be tested. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss fantasy, allegory, and literary fiction, and how these things do (or don’t, depending on who you ask) work together.

Resources:

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-book-of-sorrow-and-forgetting/384968/

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/the-uses-of-oblivion

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kazuo-ishiguros-the-buried-giant.html

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/books/for-kazuo-ishiguro-the-buried-giant-is-a-departure.html

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