Never Let Me Go
20th anniversary edition
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Harry Hartog's review
It is rare to find a novel with such an acute awareness of mortality. Haunted by questions raised by modern day medicine, this not so distant future clarifies its reality in the very human urges of its narrator. Ishiguro takes you into a silent, shadowed room and asks you to listen to the sound of your own breath. - Aisling, Harry Hartog Carindale
Description
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed 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.
- ISBN:
- 9780571258093
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 304
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Faber & Faber
- Imprint:
- Faber & Faber
- Weight:
- 253 g