In his most recent novel, The Buried Giant (2015), Ishiguro presents an elderly couple, Axl and Beatrice, who live in a Britain afflicted by a mist that makes everyone forget not only their common historical past but also their own life experiences and memories. By focusing on the journey of the two elderly and increasingly frail protagonists within a fantastic, neomedieval world, the novel challenges the chronometric and future-oriented model of time in which youth is an asset and old age inevitably a burden. Related to this, the novel interrogates the model of generational succession as straightforward renewal and progress, instead positing a cyclical movement through which the mistakes of past generations are repeated once and again. In this novel, endurance in the face of vulnerability, as experienced by the elderly characters of the novel, seems to be the only plausible answer to an inevitable repetition of mistakes and the cyclical nature of trauma.

在他最近的小说《被埋葬的巨人》中（2015），石黑展示了一对老年夫妇，Axl 和 Beatrice，他们生活在一个被雾气笼罩的英国，这让每个人不仅忘记了他们共同的历史，也忘记了他们自己的生活经历和记忆。通过关注两个年老体弱的主人公在一个梦幻般的新中世纪世界中的旅程，这部小说挑战了计时和面向未来的时间模型，在这种模型中，青春是一种财富，而老年不可避免地是一种负担。与此相关的是，小说将世代传承模式质疑为直接的更新和进步，而不是假设一个循环运动，通过它一次又一次地重复过去几代人的错误。在这部小说中，面对脆弱的忍耐，正如小说中年长的人物所经历的，