Never Let Me Go

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Kazuo Ishiguro: Never Let Me Go (EBook, 2009, Faber and Faber Ltd)

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Published Oct. 29, 2009 by Faber and Faber Ltd.

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978-0-571-24938-1
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A clear frontrunner to be the years most extraordinary novel . . . Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness.' Sunday TimesIn one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, 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.

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Saw the movie first, so the various reveals that crop up throughout the story were not hidden to me. They didn't make the film any better, and the same could be said of the book.

The biggest question in my mind is whether to tag the narrator as unreliable. The entire story is told from her perspective, and bounces around as she remembers various parts to her narrative. Unfortunately it is pretty obvious this is Ishiguro's method for hiding some things until revealed later.

It works as a story, and either the children are all oblivious to their situation or the author didn't want to write about the conflict. Either way, it's a depressing book which was just "okay".

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