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Bookerwinner ishiguros new novel, apparently set in postroman britain, is a muddle wrapped in an enigma dunked in an allegory. The buried giant by kazuo ishiguro 2016, paperback at the best online prices at ebay. The buried giant is a fantasy novel by the nobel prizewinning british writer kazuo ishiguro, published in march 2015 the novel follows an elderly briton couple, axl and beatrice, living in a fictional postarthurian england in which noone is able to retain long term memories. In itself, this promiscuous mixing of influences and periods. The buried giant has far too much dialogue like this, more monty python than william golding.
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