The Buried Giant story

novel: The Buried Giant (2015) · 2015-03-03 · Kazuo Ishiguro

The story is set in a time of decline after the rule of the great peace maker King Arthur. There is a mist that, for good or bad, makes people forget things such as their hatred for each other and former enemies live peacefully side by side. An elderly couple gets caught up in a quest that centers on the slaying of a dragon that is the cause of the mist.

12 total · 9 choice · 2 major · 1 minor

ThemeLevelMotivation
coming to terms with one's own death choice Axl and especially Beatrice, Gawain to an extent.
coping with aging choice Axl, Beatrice, Gawain, Querig, various others
hate begets hate choice Saxons and Britons in vendetta
healing after social upheaval choice basically a post-holocaust situation
old-age love choice Axl and Beatrice
reasons for war choice circle of hate
remembrance choice everyone was struggling to remember things they thought important from their pasts
the horrors of war choice fields of bones etc
the nature of memory choice hate and love and all sorts of things are in there
vendetta major The land was tattered and war-torn because of the perpetual feud between the Saxons and Britons.