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“The Buried Giant” is set after the end of a war between Saxons and Britons; they now live alongside each other, but warily. A widespread historical amnesia grips the populace, erasing both recent and distant memory.

Axl and Beatrice, two elderly married Britons, call this forgetting “the mist.” Even memories only a month or two old fade away. Axl and Beatrice once had a son, who disappeared, but neither can quite remember him, or why he left them. They embark on a journey to visit him, a quest that occupies the rest of the novel. (Despite all this mental erasure, they seem to know that “our son awaits us in his village.”) In the course of the journey, they encounter two knights: Wistan, a young Saxon warrior, and Sir Gawain, an elderly and slightly buffoonish nephew of King Arthur, whose reputation, like Don Quixote’s, comically precedes him. There are adventures and battles with ogres, pixies, dragons, and menacing soldiers. There are some sinister monks.

Along the way, Beatrice and Axl discover that “the mist” is actually the breath of a tyrannical she-dragon named Querig, and that the only way to restore the country’s stolen memory will be to kill Querig. The novel ends with the vanquishing of Querig and the inauguration of a new historical dispensation, in which people will have to reckon with what they have forgotten. The restoration of memory is a bitter pleasure, it seems: Beatrice and Axl recover their intimate past, but historically the mist has enabled a period of peace, wherein Saxons and Britons had productively forgotten their former enmities and grievances. Zte nck code calculator software free download. “Who knows what old hatreds will loosen across the land now?” Axl asks, fearfully.

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Wistan, who appears to have supped full of anti-British grievance, agrees: “The giant, once well buried, now stirs.” He predicts savage warfare. But Beatrice and Axl, who are old, will likely not live to see this bloody future.