Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Vintage International, 2006 - Fiction - 288 pages

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it's only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.
Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

"From the Hardcover edition.

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I think this book would have had a much bigger impact if I hadn’t watched the film first. The dynamic between the characters was very interesting and Ishiguro has a lot of insight into human nature. I ...

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I'm not going to say much about this book, but WOW ... what a powerful, thoughtful and insightful way to think about what it means to be a human being.

Contents

• Section 1: 7
• Section 2: 19
• Section 3: 31
• Section 4: 47
• Section 5: 60
• Section 6: 70
• Section 7: 83
• Section 8: 94
• Section 9: 106
• Section 10: 114
• Section 11: 124
• Section 12: 136
• Section 13: 152
• Section 14: 165
• Section 15: 7
• Section 16: 18
• Section 17: 37
• Section 18: 46
• Section 19: 56
• Section 20: 76

About the author

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of five previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize and became an international best seller. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995 he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.

Bibliographic information

• Title: Never Let Me Go; Vintage International
• Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
• Edition: reprint
• Publisher: Vintage International, 2006
• ISBN: 1400078776, 9781400078776
• Length: 288 pages
• Subjects: Fiction / Literary; Fiction / Psychological