Never Let Me Go is a science fiction novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was published in April 5th, 2005. The novel was shortlisted for several prestigious awards, including the 2005 Man Booker Prize (which Ishiguro had won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award, and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award.
Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included it in its list of the "100 Best English-language Novels published since 1923." It also received the 2006 ALA Alex Award. The book was adapted into a film in 2010, directed by Mark Romanek, and inspired a Japanese television drama in 2016.
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, is set in England during the 1990s and follows the lives of students at an exclusive boarding school. The themes of the story are friendship, memory, and the essence of humanity, slowly uncovering profound secrets about the world in which the characters live. Ishiguro began writing the novel in 1990, initially titled The Student's Novel.
The film adaptation of the same name will be celebrating its 15th anniversary this year on September 15th. The film was directed by Mark Romanek. It stars Carey Mulligan as Kathy, Andrew Garfield as Tommy, and Keira Knightley as Ruth.
FYI: Never Let Me Go takes its title from a fictional song in the novel. Kathy cherishes her cassette of Songs after Dark by Judy Bridgewater, bought at a Hailsham sale. While dancing to the song's chorus, she sees Madame crying. Later, Madame explains that Kathy's behavior reminded her of the loss of an "old kind word" due to technology. The novel also explores the theme of "letting each other go" when Kathy and the others leave the cottages.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro:
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. 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. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
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.
Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. 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. 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.
source: Wikipedia
Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included it in its list of the "100 Best English-language Novels published since 1923." It also received the 2006 ALA Alex Award. The book was adapted into a film in 2010, directed by Mark Romanek, and inspired a Japanese television drama in 2016.
Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel, is set in England during the 1990s and follows the lives of students at an exclusive boarding school. The themes of the story are friendship, memory, and the essence of humanity, slowly uncovering profound secrets about the world in which the characters live. Ishiguro began writing the novel in 1990, initially titled The Student's Novel.
The film adaptation of the same name will be celebrating its 15th anniversary this year on September 15th. The film was directed by Mark Romanek. It stars Carey Mulligan as Kathy, Andrew Garfield as Tommy, and Keira Knightley as Ruth.
FYI: Never Let Me Go takes its title from a fictional song in the novel. Kathy cherishes her cassette of Songs after Dark by Judy Bridgewater, bought at a Hailsham sale. While dancing to the song's chorus, she sees Madame crying. Later, Madame explains that Kathy's behavior reminded her of the loss of an "old kind word" due to technology. The novel also explores the theme of "letting each other go" when Kathy and the others leave the cottages.
Here is the goodreads synopsis of "Never Let Me Go" by Kazuo Ishiguro:
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. 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. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
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.
Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. 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. 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.
source: Wikipedia
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