Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

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'Brilliantly executed.'
MARGARET ATWOOD

'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'
TIME

'Masterly.'
SUNDAY TIMES

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author

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 TIMES

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'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.'
'I loved it, every single word of it.'
'It took me wholly by surprise.'
'Utterly beautiful.'
'Essentially perfect.'

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2 of 5 stars

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I didn’t cry! I can’t believe I didn’t cry! No: it was sad, and contemplative, and restrained, and Ishiguro disappears once again so completely into the voice of a character that, if not for his name on the jacket, I could never recognize him from book to book.

Wait, that’s not quite true: he has the distinctive trait of writing in circles around the story, of speaking in language so plain and unextraordinary that the whole truths are left to lurk off to the side, between the lines. “The stories we tell ourselves,” so true.

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