"Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, The Buried Giant, was over a decade in the making, but unlike so many anticipated literary releases, it’s no sweeping saga of century-spanning conflicts. Nor is it a painstakingly assembled retelling of his own personal history.
Instead, the author describes his quiet, deeply touching story as 'fable-like.' Set in Arthurian Britain circa 500 A.D. -- a historical period we know little about -- it follows an old married couple that hopes to restore their lost memories, as they and their neighbors seem to be suffering from a collective amnesia.
'I want people to appreciate the difficulty of questions about remembering and forgetting,' he told The Huffington Post. 'I want to insist on the complexity of human dilemmas.'"
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