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Boots.

Where would we be without boos?

Where would we be without good?

No to bird.

It's a rhetorical question, sir.

But where would we be without books?

From KCRW and KCRW.com, I'm Michael Silverblad, and this is Bookworm.

Today it's my honor, my pleasure, my excitement, my delight to have the estimable and

inimitable casual Ishiguro with me. His new book is The Buried Giant.

It's published by Knopf. I want to say out front, I can't think of a way to talk about

this book without involving so-called spoilers.

So if you're planning to read the book and are afraid of such things, wait until after

you've read the book to listen to the show.

I would say to you that this is a book that's rich and strange, and you don't have to worry

about spoilers. There'll be

enough in the book to fascinate you, even if you know certain things. Now, Casual, what was

the inception of the buried giant? Well, this might seem rather strange, but it wasn't Arthurian legends. You know,

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