Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro

Kazuo Ishiguro's eight books have won him world-wide renown and many honours, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Dayand Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His most recent novel, The Buried Giant, was published in 2015, debuting at number 1 on the Sunday Times bestseller list.A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURYMasterly... A novel with piercing questions about humanity and humaneness.A brilliantly executed book by a master craftsman who has chosen a difficult subject: ourselves, seen through a glass, darkly.A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.A master stoyteller ... In this deceptively sad novel, he simply uses a science-fiction framework to throw light on ordinary human life, the human soul, human sexuality, love, creativity and childhood innocence. He does so with devastating effect.A clear frontrunner to be the year's most extraordinary novel.Brilliant. The most exact and affecting of his novels to date.*Kazuo Ishiguro's new novel Klara and the Sun is now available*

Shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize

Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

'Exquisite.' Guardian
'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' New York Times

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