Ishiguro writes a haunting, elegiac tale about the meaning and mystery of life. Written in a deceptively direct and uncomplicated narrative, Mr. In an alternate 1990s England, Kathy prepares herself for the next stage of her life as a donor and reminisces about her past as a student and her childhood friends Ruth and Tommy. is a thirty-year old carer and a graduate from a secluded, elite academy called Hailsham. 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. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman.
It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.
As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. Plus, I’m shallow in that I saw the cover and the catchy title, and was instantly intrigued.įrom the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. I picked up Never Let Me Go on a whim in the bookstore, craving a meaty, substantive, speculative fiction read, and I hoped that this book would deliver. Ishiguro’s The Remains of the Day and loved it, but since have not returned to his literary pasture. Stand alone or series: Stand alone novel. Publication Date: March 2005 (UK) / March 2006 (US)
Publisher: Faber and Faber (UK) / Vintage (US) Genre: Speculative Fiction, Literary Fiction
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