Never Let Me Go
A woman recalls her sheltered childhood at an isolated boarding school as buried truths about her life and future emerge.
First published 2010
Science FictionDystopia
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Story
Kathy, now an adult, looks back on her childhood at Hailsham, a secluded English boarding school where she grew up with her friends Ruth and Tommy. At first, the school seems sheltered and oddly idyllic, but Kathy’s memories keep circling small events, private rivalries, and the growing sense that something about their lives has always been hidden.
As Kathy revisits Hailsham and later years spent with her friends outside school, the story gradually reveals the purpose the children were raised for and the conditioning that shaped how they understood themselves. Their friendships, romances, and jealousies unfold against a system that has already decided their futures.
The narrative moves through recollection rather than suspense, letting meaning accumulate from fragments, repetitions, and late clarifications. Kathy’s return to memory becomes a way of piecing together love, loss, and the terms of a life that was never fully her own.
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- Authors
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 2010
- Genres
- Science Fiction, Dystopia, Literary Fiction, Contemporary, Classics, Romance
- Subjects
- Fiction · Organ donors · Cloning · Donation of organs, tissues · Women · Literature · New York Times bestseller · nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2010-09-05 · Human cloning · Science fiction · Fiction, psychological · Fiction, science fiction, general · England, fiction · Large type books · School children · Reminiscing · Friendship · English literature · Ishiguro, kazuo, 1954- · Powieść angielska · Tłumaczenia polskie · Femmes · Romans, nouvelles · Clonage · Donneurs d'organes · Dons d'organes, de tissus · Novela inglesa · Psychological fiction · Literary · Donation of organs, tissues, etc · Donation of organs, tissues, etc--fiction · Women--fiction · Cloning--fiction · Organ donors--fiction · Pr6059.s5 n48 2006 · Fic
- ISBN-13
- 9781400078776
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