The Buried Giant.

ISHIGURO, Kazuo.

$175.00

Item Number: 146585

New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

First edition of this brilliantly conceived fantasy novel. Octavo, original half cloth, pictorial endpapers. Presentation copy, inscribed by the author on the title page, “To Rex Kazuo Ishiguro.” Near fine in a near fine dust jacket. Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund. Typography by Neil Gower.

'The Buried Giant' is a "profound examination of memory and guilt" (Alex Preston, The Guardian), scrapped and rebuilt from scratch across ten years. In February 2023, a stop-motion animated film adaptation was officially announced by Netflix Animation and ShadowMachine to be written, produced, and directed by Guillermo del Toro and Dennis Kelly.