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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
Apr 5, 2005 · A dystopian novel by the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day. It explores the themes of memory, identity, and human nature in a world where clones are created for organ donation.
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B.A. in English, B.F.A. in Fine Art, and B.A. in Art Histories from East Carolina University. ‘Never Let Me Go’ by Kazuo Ishiguro is a science fiction, dystopian novel that was published in 2005. It depicts a world in which individuals are cloned for the sole purpose of harvesting their organs. Kazuo Ishiguro is a British writer who was ...
- Emma Baldwin
Apr 26, 2023 · In that TV program, Ishiguro explained: “Never let me go is an impossible request. You can say, hold on to me for a long time, that’s reasonable. But never let me go—you know that what is being asked for, and asked for with great passion and need, is actually ultimately impossible to fulfill, so it’s that never that really appealed to ...
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 ...
Never Let Me Go is Ishiguro’s sixth novel. Blending psychological realism with science fiction, it takes place in a parallel universe in 1990s England where human cloning is an accepted practice. His first-person narrator is Kathy H., a clone engaged in recalling and reflecting on her memories of the past.
About Never Let Me Go. NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force” (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
