The Buried Giant or God Help The Child???
A spur goes around this two books, both were published early this year and now are competeing greatly in the market. What are your ideas? Say in the comments
THE BURIED GIANT by Kazuo Ishiguro
Axl and Beatrice are an old Briton couple living in a time when people seem to be unable to perceive the past clearly. Upon remembering once having had a son, they journey to visit him. On the way they become involved with a mysterious Saxon warrior called Wistan, the old-fashioned knight Gawain, and a Saxon child, Edwin, on the run from a village where he is wanted dead due to the properties of an ogre bite he is mistakenly assumed to have received.
It is eventually revealed that Axl and Sir Gawain once served under King Arthur, a Briton, who won a long and terrible war against the Saxons which culminated in the slaughter of Saxon women and children. In order to prevent the Saxons from seeking revenge and thus keep the peace, Arthur had Merlin cast a spell over the land, clouding everyone's memory. The travellers reluctantly decide to lift the spell despite the highly likely outcome of a new war.
Throughout the novel, the moral conflict is mirrored in the troubles of Axl and Beatrice's relationship. On one hand they feel that remembering their past will make their love truer, on the other they worry that something in their past will ruin their current positive view of the relationship.
Axl and Beatrice are an old Briton couple living in a time when people seem to be unable to perceive the past clearly. Upon remembering once having had a son, they journey to visit him. On the way they become involved with a mysterious Saxon warrior called Wistan, the old-fashioned knight Gawain, and a Saxon child, Edwin, on the run from a village where he is wanted dead due to the properties of an ogre bite he is mistakenly assumed to have received.
It is eventually revealed that Axl and Sir Gawain once served under King Arthur, a Briton, who won a long and terrible war against the Saxons which culminated in the slaughter of Saxon women and children. In order to prevent the Saxons from seeking revenge and thus keep the peace, Arthur had Merlin cast a spell over the land, clouding everyone's memory. The travellers reluctantly decide to lift the spell despite the highly likely outcome of a new war.
Throughout the novel, the moral conflict is mirrored in the troubles of Axl and Beatrice's relationship. On one hand they feel that remembering their past will make their love truer, on the other they worry that something in their past will ruin their current positive view of the relationship.
Axl and Beatrice are an old Briton couple living in a time when people seem to be unable to perceive the past clearly. Upon remembering once having had a son, they journey to visit him. On the way they become involved with a mysterious Saxon warrior called Wistan, the old-fashioned knight Gawain, and a Saxon child, Edwin, on the run from a village where he is wanted dead due to the properties of an ogre bite he is mistakenly assumed to have received.
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GOD HELP THE CHILD by Toni Morrison.
A young girl with blue-black skin is neglected and abused by the light skinned parents who are ashamed of her. Lula Ann Bridewell, who calls herself “Bride”, is blue-black beautiful, the kind of woman who turns heads wherever she goes. She is tall, elegant, and dresses only in white, the better to reflect her beauty.
But Bride did not always know her beauty or how to wear it. As a child, her mother Sweetness punished Bride for her dark skin, which ended her marriage. Sweetness’s husband Louis could not bring himself to love a child with skin as dark as Bride’s. “We had three good years,” Sweetness tells us, “but when she was born, he blamed me and treated Lula Ann like she was a stranger, more than that, an enemy.” Her mother, meanwhile, insisted her child call her Sweetness instead of anything maternal.
Bride grew up without love, tenderness, affection or apology. Sweetness makes it clear she saw herself as protecting her child from a world that would be even more inclined to punish Bride for the darkness of her skin.
THE BURIED GIANT by Kazuo Ishiguro
Axl and Beatrice are an old Briton couple living in a time when people seem to be unable to perceive the past clearly. Upon remembering once having had a son, they journey to visit him. On the way they become involved with a mysterious Saxon warrior called Wistan, the old-fashioned knight Gawain, and a Saxon child, Edwin, on the run from a village where he is wanted dead due to the properties of an ogre bite he is mistakenly assumed to have received.
It is eventually revealed that Axl and Sir Gawain once served under King Arthur, a Briton, who won a long and terrible war against the Saxons which culminated in the slaughter of Saxon women and children. In order to prevent the Saxons from seeking revenge and thus keep the peace, Arthur had Merlin cast a spell over the land, clouding everyone's memory. The travellers reluctantly decide to lift the spell despite the highly likely outcome of a new war.
Throughout the novel, the moral conflict is mirrored in the troubles of Axl and Beatrice's relationship. On one hand they feel that remembering their past will make their love truer, on the other they worry that something in their past will ruin their current positive view of the relationship.
Axl and Beatrice are an old Briton couple living in a time when people seem to be unable to perceive the past clearly. Upon remembering once having had a son, they journey to visit him. On the way they become involved with a mysterious Saxon warrior called Wistan, the old-fashioned knight Gawain, and a Saxon child, Edwin, on the run from a village where he is wanted dead due to the properties of an ogre bite he is mistakenly assumed to have received.
It is eventually revealed that Axl and Sir Gawain once served under King Arthur, a Briton, who won a long and terrible war against the Saxons which culminated in the slaughter of Saxon women and children. In order to prevent the Saxons from seeking revenge and thus keep the peace, Arthur had Merlin cast a spell over the land, clouding everyone's memory. The travellers reluctantly decide to lift the spell despite the highly likely outcome of a new war.
Throughout the novel, the moral conflict is mirrored in the troubles of Axl and Beatrice's relationship. On one hand they feel that remembering their past will make their love truer, on the other they worry that something in their past will ruin their current positive view of the relationship.
Axl and Beatrice are an old Briton couple living in a time when people seem to be unable to perceive the past clearly. Upon remembering once having had a son, they journey to visit him. On the way they become involved with a mysterious Saxon warrior called Wistan, the old-fashioned knight Gawain, and a Saxon child, Edwin, on the run from a village where he is wanted dead due to the properties of an ogre bite he is mistakenly assumed to have received.
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GOD HELP THE CHILD by Toni Morrison.
A young girl with blue-black skin is neglected and abused by the light skinned parents who are ashamed of her. Lula Ann Bridewell, who calls herself “Bride”, is blue-black beautiful, the kind of woman who turns heads wherever she goes. She is tall, elegant, and dresses only in white, the better to reflect her beauty.
But Bride did not always know her beauty or how to wear it. As a child, her mother Sweetness punished Bride for her dark skin, which ended her marriage. Sweetness’s husband Louis could not bring himself to love a child with skin as dark as Bride’s. “We had three good years,” Sweetness tells us, “but when she was born, he blamed me and treated Lula Ann like she was a stranger, more than that, an enemy.” Her mother, meanwhile, insisted her child call her Sweetness instead of anything maternal.
Bride grew up without love, tenderness, affection or apology. Sweetness makes it clear she saw herself as protecting her child from a world that would be even more inclined to punish Bride for the darkness of her skin.
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