The Buried Giant - Kazuo Ishiguro

Abigail Nussbaum wrote a scathing review of Kazuo Ishiguro's latest book.  Here's how she ends:

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"... underneath The Buried Giant's polite surface, there is a genuinely misanthropic heart, that sees the flaws in its characters as a reason to hate and punish them, not pity them.  The point of the novel isn't that war and conflict are inevitable, or that no love is perfect, but rather that it is foolish to hope otherwise, and that people who do--both the characters and the readers--are to be derided.

The only good thing that has come from my choice to read this novel is that I no longer have to wonder if I was wrong about Ishiguro ten years ago, and hopefully I won't make the mistake of picking him up again."

Opinions on Amazon seem to be mixed but I am more optimistic.

In any event, it's the next book to be read to Clare, starting tomorrow.