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    Kazuo Ishiguro: The Buried Giant

    Kazuo Ishiguro starts the interview about his new book as a look at the concept of societal memory.

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    By Michael Silverblatt • Apr 30, 2015 • 29m Listen

    Kazuo Ishiguro starts the interview about his new book, The Buried Giant (Knopf), as a look at the concept of societal memory, but in the end, we ask can love and marriage survive the delicate balance of remembering and forgetting?

    Read an excerpt from The Buried Giant.

    Photo: © Jeff Cottenden

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      Michael Silverblatt

      host, 'Bookworm'

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      Connie Alvarez

      Former Communications Director

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      Alan Howard

      Bookworm Collaborator

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      Kazuo Ishiguro

      Nobel Prize-winning novelist

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