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Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 ...
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- 2005
His first-person narrator is Kathy H., a clone engaged in recalling and reflecting on her memories of the past. Ishiguro began writing Never Let Me Go in 1990, when he referred to it as “The Students’ Novel.” His early notes featured a group of strange students living in the countryside, an image that remained core to the finished novel.
- Never Let Me Go was originally about lounge singers. The characters were living in 1950s America and pursuing careers on Broadway; as Ishiguro told Poets & Writers, “The book would both be about that world and resemble its songs.”
- Ishiguro came up with narrator Kathy H. 15 years before he published Never Let Me Go. Initially, the character who would become the narrator of Never Let Me Go popped up in a vague idea for a book about young people hanging out and arguing about books in a time like the 1970s.
- The author nixed a few ideas for what that “strange fate” would be. At first, Ishiguro thought his characters would live a regular human lifespan more quickly than normal people—in 30 years rather than 80.
- According to Ishiguro, the boarding school is “a physical manifestation for what we have to do to all children.” Ishiguro’s clones are raised in a boarding school called Hailsham, where the truth about their purpose is hidden from them.
Never Let Me Go presumes a more complex and widespread system of organ-farming—the clones really are human beings, but their lives exist solely to create and "caretake" organs for “real” humans—and Ishiguro allows these biological and ethical ideas to play out in the background, while a very human story of love, loss, and maturation occurs in the foreground. Ishiguro’s choice to make the novel primarily about human lives—and the way all human must deal with their particular fates ...
Apr 5, 2005 · 9,563 reviews388 followers. August 5, 2021. (Book 1 From 1001 books) - Never Let Me Go, Kazuo IshiguroNever Let Me Go, is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel, by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The story begins with Kathy, who describes herself as a carer, talking about looking after organ donors.
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Cultural Impact of the Novel. The novel was met with critical acclaim when it was published in 2005. Readers flocked to its unique narrative and appreciated its challenging themes, like the ethics of science. The book was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and was made into a film soon after.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro, published in 2005, is a dystopian novel that examines themes of memory, dignity, and the inevitability of loss. Set in an alternate England, the science fiction story follows Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy, who grow up in Hailsham, an elite boarding school. As they come of age, they discover the unsettling truth about ...
