Book Club: The Buried Giant, Chapters Sixteen & Seventeen

end of book

Ishiguro has delivered: one last weird Edwin chapter!

This one has more obviously tangible stakes than most, though, and brings a lot of Edwin’s arc into focus for me. Among the many things that I either didn’t grasp the first time around or had forgotten, Edwin’s particular thematic and narrative role is the most obvious. I recalled that there was a kid…