Book Description
Shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go 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.'Exquisite.' Guardian'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' New York TimesWhat readers are saying:'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it. 5/5 stars''I loved it, every single word of it.''It took me wholly by surprise.''Utterly beautiful.''Essentially perfect.'
Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro - 9780571258093 - Faber & Faber
ISBN: 9780571258093
| Publication Year | 2010 |
| Publisher | Faber & Faber |
| No. of Pages | 282 |
| Weight | 0.4 kg |
| Genre | Fiction, Organ donors, Cloning, Donation of organs, tissues, Women |
Shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go 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.'Exquisite.' Guardian'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' New York TimesWhat readers are saying:'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it. 5/5 stars''I loved it, every single word of it.''It took me wholly by surprise.''Utterly beautiful.''Essentially perfect.'
