![]() ![]() "Ishiguro’s provocative subject matter and taut, potent prose have earned him multiple literary decorations, including the French government’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an Order of the British Empire for service to literature. "Ishiguro’s elegant prose and masterly ways with characterization make for a lovely tale of memory, self-understanding, and love." - Library Journal (starred review) The most exact and affecting of his books to date." - The Guardian (UK) Ishiguro’ s most profound statement of the endurance of human relationships. "Elegiac, compelling, otherworldly, deeply disturbing and profoundly moving." - Sunday Herald (UK) ![]() Send a copy to the Swedish Academy." - Kirkus Reviews (starred review) A masterpiece of craftsmanship that offers an unparalleled emotional experience. That this stunningly brilliant fiction echoes Caryl Churchill’s superb play A Number and Margaret Atwood’ s celebrated dystopian novels in no way diminishes its originality and power. Ishiguro spins a stinging cautionary tale of science outpacing ethics." - Publishers Weekly (starred review) ![]() An epic ethical horror story, told in devastatingly poignant miniature. "So exquisitely observed that even the most workaday objects and interactions are infused with a luminous, humming otherworldliness. "A clear frontrunner to be the year’s most extraordinary novel." - The Times (UK) 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.Ī PUBLISHERS WEEKLY TOP TEN BOOK OF THE YEARįINALIST FOR THE NATIONAL BOOK CRITICS CIRCLE AWARD 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. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. 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. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. 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. Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun, comes “a Gothic tour de force" ( The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist-a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. ![]()
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