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Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Knopf Canada | August 31, 2010 | Trade Paperback

Based on 32 ratings | Rate this

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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Two fatal errors.... *spoiler alert*
by David
2 years ago

Spoiler alert - this will give away some of the ending. This book has (at least) two fatal flaws: 1. Why do the donors die after four donations? The author does not even attempt to provide a rationale for this to occur. A little more depth as to what is being collected would give this book some credibility. 2. Why do the characters never figure out what is going on, or try to change things? Even with full access to 'society' they all seem to lack any intellectual curiosity about their existence or fate. I found this book failed to answer some fundamental questions that might have made its premise plausible. Without considering more about the science of what is going on, or allowing the characters to question their own existence, they became more like sheep and less like people.