![]() ![]() Pico Iyer, author of The Art of Stillness and The Lady and the Monk Which is a way of saying that I can't think of another writer who's so unswervingly serious, as well as impeccable, stripping away every distraction to get to the core of things, as a Beckett might, and attaining in the end an almost unbearable intensity of emotional directness.” ![]() I can't think of another writer who keeps finding such new and radically unexpected ways of exploring-and deepening-his lifelong concerns. David Mitchell, author of Cloud Atlas and The Bone Clocks This reveal gives the book a shadow-plot, and layers of mystery. “If forced at knife-point to choose my favourite Ishiguro novel, I’d opt for The Buried Giant. It uses the tropes of fantasy to set up a smoke-screen which the book then, by twists and turns, dispels. ![]()
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