Never Let Me Go
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prize-winning novel The Remains of the Day comes a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss.
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special-and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is modern classic.
Excerpt:
My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years. That sounds long enough, I know, but actually they want me to go on for another eight months, until the e...
About the Author:
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earned him many awards and honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been trans-lated into over fifty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were made into acclaimed films. Ishiguro also writes screenplays and song lyrics. He was given a knight-hood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.
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Reviews:
J M Briscoe I read this book several years ago and yet it has always stuck with me, particularly the coming-of-age storyline of the characters from children to adults set within an ultimately horrifying reality. There is something so poignantly spine-chilling about a reality where controversial scientific practices are not only sanctioned but have become ‘the norm’ – it really makes you think about the definition and the deniability of humanity.
nbrbud This is one of the few novels I've read that has stuck with me long after finishing it; most others are quickly forgotten. It retains its eerie quality even now.
This story is horrifying, dismal, and eerie.
A clever spin on ethics and cloning. Amazingly well-written. Excellent job keeping the story's central secret hidden from the reader until the finale.
Oh my God, it has to be the most gloomy novel I've ever read.The writing was lovely. The book is really sad. It was a good read, but I wouldn't go so far as to say that I loved it.
A really unsettling story about young people who are never truly in control of their own lives. The book moved slowly, and the ending seemed tacked on.
The novel has me torn. The writing style is quite conversational, which is a little tedious, but on the other hand, it's addictive in that you want to know what happens next.
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