Both an utterly unique exercise in dystopian fiction and a powerful portrayal of friendship at its most intimate, Never Let Me Go follows three students at the woozily pleasant Hailsham School as their preordained futures begin to unfold.
In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England.
Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.
A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
Publisher: Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571258093
Number of pages: 304
Weight: 253 g
Dimensions: 198 x 129 x 18 mm
Edition: Main
A wonderfully deep story about love, life and what we take for granted in our remarkably comfortable existence in the modern world, Ishiguro has written a novel here full of heartbreak and stories of love, where the... More
I picked up this novel as my 'free book' in the Waterstones 3 for 2 and I'm so glad I did. With a relatively simple literary style, Ishiguro tells his tale about the students of Hailsham with an honest... More
An excellent read, a haunting novel that kept my attention throughout. The dialogue was very straightforward in stark contrast to the intricate weavings of the story. Ishiguro captures the innocence of childhood, the... More
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