tiistai 18. huhtikuuta 2017

Ishiguro: The buried Giant

Lainasin Ishiguron uutukaisen suurin odotuksin. Se kun oli fantasian genressä, uutta Ishigurolle. Minulle se oli pettymys. Kirja on täynnään puuduttavaa dialogia. Juoni on laiha. Monenlaisia ennakointeja, viittauksia ja muita langanpäitä jää roikkumaan ilmaan. Lopussa on olevinaan tietynlainen yllätys, mutta sekään ei jaksanut innostaa.

Muut ovat innostuneet. Alle lainasin kirjaston esittelytekstin.

Tekijä: Ishiguro, Kazuo, Kustantaja: Faber & Faber, Vuosi: 2015.

This is the extraordinary new novel from the author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize winning The Remains of the Day. The Romans have long since departed, and Britain is steadily declining into ruin. But at least the wars that once ravaged the country have ceased. The Buried Giant begins as a couple, Axl and Beatrice, set off across a troubled land of mist and rain in the hope of finding a son they have not seen for years. They expect to face many hazards - some strange and other - worldly - but they cannot yet foresee how their journey will reveal to them dark and forgotten corners of their love for one another. Sometimes savage, often intensely moving, Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel in a decade is about lost memories, love, revenge and war.