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ISHIGURO, Kazuo. The Buried Giant.  FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY. -- And 1 other.

Sale 1262 - Summer Reading: 20th Century Literature and Biography from a Private Collection
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Jul 6, 2023
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Jul 26, 2023
Timed Online / Chicago
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ISHIGURO, Kazuo (b. 1954). The Buried Giant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015.

8vo. Original marble-paper-backed boards; publisher’s cloth dust jacket.

FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. PRESENTATION COPY, INSCRIBED BY ISHIGURO: “To Michael, best wishes, Kazuo Ishiguro.” In 2016, The Buried Giant placed 6th in the Locus Award for Best Fantasy Novel and was nominated for the World Fantasy Award for Best Novel as well as the Mythopoeic Award for Adult Literature. In his review for The Guardian,  Journalist Alex Preston stated that “The Buried Giant is Game of Thrones with a conscience, The Sword in the Stone for the age of the trauma industry, a beautiful, heartbreaking book about the duty to remember and the urge to forget.” 

[With:] ISHIGURO. The Buried Giant. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2015. 8vo. Original marble-paper-backed boards (spine ends slightly pushed); publisher’s cloth dust jacket. FIRST AMERICAN EDITION. SIGNED BY ISHIGURO.

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