This week, Hannah takes Stephanie back to their very first episode by assigning another Kazuo Ishiguro novel, The Buried Giant. Will Stephanie hate this one as much as she disliked Never Let Me Go? 

In post-Arthurian Britain, where a dragon sleeps guarded by Sir Gawain and a mist of forgetfulness covers the land, an elderly couple named Axl and Beatrice search for their son. As they encounter neighbors who can no longer remember the war that once pitted them against each other, the couple slowly starts to recover their memory and finds that their love will be tested. Join Hannah and Stephanie this week as they discuss fantasy, allegory, and literary fiction, and how these things do (or don’t, depending on who you ask) work together. 

Resources: 

https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2015/03/the-book-of-sorrow-and-forgetting/384968/ 

https://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2015/03/23/the-uses-of-oblivion 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/03/01/books/review/kazuo-ishiguros-the-buried-giant.html 

https://www.nytimes.com/2015/02/20/books/for-kazuo-ishiguro-the-buried-giant-is-a-departure.html 

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