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| Original Title: | Never Let Me Go |
| ISBN: | 1400078776 (ISBN13: 9781400078776) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Kathy H., Ruth, Tommy |
| Setting: | Hailsham(United Kingdom) |
| Literary Awards: | Booker Prize Nominee (2005), Locus Award Nominee for Best SF Novel (2006), Arthur C. Clarke Award Nominee (2006), James Tait Black Memorial Prize Nominee for Fiction (2005), ALA Alex Award (2006) National Book Critics Circle Award Nominee for Fiction (2005), Corine Internationaler Buchpreis for Belletristik (2006), International Dublin Literary Award Nominee (2007) |
Kazuo Ishiguro
Paperback | Pages: 288 pages Rating: 3.82 | 435472 Users | 29654 Reviews
Details Of Books Never Let Me Go
| Title | : | Never Let Me Go |
| Author | : | Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Anniversary Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 288 pages |
| Published | : | August 31st 2010 by Vintage Books (first published April 11th 2005) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Thriller. Mystery. Classics. Spy Thriller. Espionage |
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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.
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Ratings: 3.82 From 435472 Users | 29654 ReviewsRate Of Books Never Let Me Go
A major disappointment. Ishiguro starts with an interesting premise but makes very little out of it, and ends up with a limp, unsatisfying story.Some of the positive reviews about this book seem a little strained -- we're supposed to reflect on the similarity of our own "doomed" lives to those of the clones. But it doesn't really wash. There's never a sense that any of the characters are struggling with the dead-serious issues that make life worth living; they're herded from stage to stage likeOriginality? Functionality? Individuality? Community? Friendship? Love? Justice? What is the defining feature of humanity? And who is entitled to that definition? Raising harrowing questions in a dystopian England, "Never Let Me Go" seems to be one of those highly divisive books that you either love or hate with a passion. I loved it, every single word of it, from the beginning to completion. To complete, a word that implies a special kind of duty and function in the strange alternative
There's no doubt about it, Never Let Me Go gives a picture of the '90s that isn't nearly as pretty as the folks on 90210. In the book, youll find a dystopia where everything seems perfect. But the sad truth is that this world isn't perfect for everyone. And it's definitely not perfect for Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy. I don't want to spill all the beans here, so Ill just say this: these three friends are in for a wild ride. Over time, they'll learn about their true (and dark) purpose in this funky
Ah, f**kin' British writers! My inclination to adore everyone from Evelyn Waugh to Charles Dickens, from Alex Garland to Zadie Smith seems very ingrained (DEEP) inside me, primordial, & there must be SOME bloody reason why I find most English fiction so alluring. I think it has mostly to do with mood.The best book I've read all year (though not including Graham Greene's "The Quiet American") is about a microsociety of students in a boarding school hybrid named Hailsham. While there they do
The thing I enjoy most about Ishiguros writing is the sheer level of depth he gets into his characters; he captures all the intensity of real emotions whether they are self-serving or destructive. His writing style is simple, plain even, but he builds up many layers within his story telling to unleash the full symphony of conflicted feelings in powerful bursts. However, for all his talent, I dont think this novel was as effective as The Remains of the Day or even When We Were Orphans.This is
It is a pity that people are told this is a science fiction book before they read it. I feel the least interesting thing about it is that it is science fiction. I mean this in much the same way that the least interesting thing one could say about 1984 is that it is science fiction. As a piece of literature I enjoyed it much more than Margaret Atwood's Oryx and Crake and even more than Huxley's Brave New World. The themes that make this book most interesting are to do with the social alienation
My very first Kazuo Ishiguro's work. Certainly not the last.This book aggressively provoked emotions in me without ever being that emotional at all. It didn't whine; didn't scream at me, just smoothly narrated the story to me, very matter-of-factly, even at times in a detaching way. And yet, the sadness I felt after finishing it, and even before that, was so disproprotionate, it took me wholly by surprise.It wasn't a love at first sight by any means, I needed a whole month to finish it. The
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