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ALSO BY KAZUO ISHIGURO
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THIS IS A BORZOI BOOK
PUBLISHED BY ALFRED A. KNOPF
Copyright © 2015 by Kazuo Ishiguro
All rights reserved. Published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf, a division of Random House LLC, New York, a Penguin Random House company. Published simultaneously in Great Britain by Faber and Faber Ltd., London.
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Knopf, Borzoi Books, and the colophon are registered trademarks of Random House LLC.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Ishiguro, Kazuo, [date]
The buried giant : a novel / Kazuo Ishiguro.—First edition.
pages ; cm
ISBN 978-0-307-27103-7 (hardcover)     ISBN 978-0-385-35322-9 (eBook)
I. Title
PR6059.85B87 2015
8232.914—dc23   2014028378
This is a work of fiction. Names, characters, places, and incidents either are the product of the author’s imagination or are used fictitiously. Any resemblance to actual persons, living or dead, events, or locales is entirely coincidental.
Jacket design by Peter Mendelsund
v3.1
Deborah Rogers
1938–2014
Contents
Cover
Other Books by This Author
Title Page
Copyright
Dedication
Part I
Chapter One
Chapter Two
Chapter Three
Chapter Four
Chapter Five
Part II
Chapter Six
Chapter Seven
Chapter Eight
Part III
Gawain’s First Reverie
Chapter Ten
Chapter Eleven
Chapter Twelve
Chapter Thirteen
Gawain’s Second Reverie
Part IV
Chapter Fifteen
Chapter Sixteen
Chapter Seventeen
A Note About the Author
Part I
Chapter One
You would have searched a long time for the sort of winding lane or tranquil meadow for which England later became celebrated. There were instead miles of desolate, uncultivated land; here and there rough-hewn paths over craggy hills or bleak moorland. Most of the roads left by the Romans would by then have become broken or overgrown, often fading into wilderness. Icy fogs hung over rivers and marshes, serving all too well the ogres that were then still native to this land. The people who lived nearby—one wonders what desperation led them to settle in such gloomy spots—might well have feared these creatures, whose panting breaths could be heard long before their deformed figures emerged from the mist. But such monsters were not cause for astonishment. People then would have regarded them as everyday hazards, and in those days there was so much else to worry about. How to get food out of the hard ground; how not to run out of firewood ............

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