Amy has picked a new book for April, "The Buried Giant" by Kazuo Ishiguro. People were still waiting for the library copies of her first pick. She said, "I'm choosing this book because its a reference text for a
more academic, theological book that I want to read called
Forgiveness: An Alternative Account by Matthew Ichihashi Potts. In his
book, Potts uses 4 novels as a framework for thinking about
forgiveness. This is one of them. I haven't read Potts book yet
because I want to read the framework novels first. Potts is the co-host
of the podcast, Harry Potter and the Sacred Text, which I listen to
religiously! Crossing my fingers that it's a good book! "
ABOUT THE BOOK
The Buried Giant is a fantasy novel by the Nobel Prize-winning British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published in March 2015.
An extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.
"You've long set your heart against it, Axl, I know. But it's time now to think on it anew. There's a journey we must go on, and no more delay..."
The Buried Giant begins as a couple set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen in years.
Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in nearly a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge, and war.
ABOUT THE AUTHOR
Life
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan. When he was five, the family moved to Guildford in Surrey, England, where his father, an oceanographer, had been invited to work at a research institute. In his youth Kazuo Ishiguro first wanted to become a musician, but he studied English and philosophy at the University of Kent and then creative writing at the University of East Anglia, where he earned a master’s degree in 1980. Since then he has worked as a writer. Kazuo Ishiguro is married and has a daughter.
Work
Memory, time and lifelong deception are central themes in Kazuo Ishiguro’s works. Growing up in a Japanese family in Great Britain has colored his thinking and perspectives. His first two novels are set in Japan. His most celebrated work, The Remains of the Day, published in 1989, is about an English butler and his feelings for a housekeeper at the time around World War II. In later works Ishiguro approached genres such as fantasy and science fiction. His language is characterized by restraint, even when dramatic events are portrayed.
https://www.nobelprize.org/prizes/literature/2017/ishiguro/facts/
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