![]() ![]() ![]() But then again, for fear one might draw any certainty from this information, the narrator concedes: “Perhaps these were not their exact or full names, but for ease, this is how we will refer to them. Ishiguro’s initial use of a first-person narrator seems both promising and helpful, in keeping with the convention.Īn elderly Christian couple, Axl and Beatrice, are introduced. Icy fogs hung over rivers and marshes, serving all too well the ogres that were then still native to this land.”Īs early as this opening paragraph Kazuo Ishiguro appears to be imposing a firm structure on the narrative, which appears to be intended to take the form of a fairy tale – "ogres" providing the clue.ĭaily life is an ordeal endured in communal shelters, and monsters are “regarded as everyday hazards”. The Romans left long before during the intervening centuries even their famous roads “have become broken or overgrown, often fading into wilderness. A heavy mist has descended over sixth-century Britain, a bleak country inhabited by mutually antagonistic Saxons and Britons. ![]()
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