The Buried Giant: Chapters 11, 12, & 13

We’ve got a little more Tolkien in our Ishiguro - Axl and Beatrice floating along in their barley baskets can’t help but call to mind Bilbo and the dwarves floating downstream in beer barrels. Sadly, though there’s a touch of the comic to our aged heroes bobbing along, Chapter Eleven is in its own way as somber as the rest of our tale.

Hey! Pixies. They…