Kazuo Ishiguro’s The Buried Giant is his most unusual novel, set in post-Arthurian Britain where a mysterious mist causes people to forget their past. The story follows an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, on a journey to find their son, only to discover that their search is also a quest to recover forgotten memories. Though populated with dragons, knights, and mythical creatures, the novel is less a fantasy than a philosophical exploration of memory. Ishiguro uses the fading of personal and collective memories to ask whether forgetting can preserve love and peace, or whether remembering painful truths is ultimately unavoidable. At its core, The Buried Giant is a moving reflection on memory, identity, and reconciliation, reminding readers that both individuals and nations are shaped as much by what they forget as by what they remember.
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2016/jan/27/buried-giant-kazuo-ishiguro-review-nicholas-lezard
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