Never Let Me Go

Name: Never Let Me Go
Rating: 5 (1 reviews)
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
ISBN: 9780307740991

Kazuo Ishiguro • 2005

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread

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Our Take

Kathy, Tommy, and Ruth grow up at Hailsham and discover what they are for — gradually, the way you discover most terrible things. Ishiguro gives them a complete emotional life and an absolutely closed future. The question the novel refuses to answer — why didn't they run? — is the question about all of us.

Appears In

► Japanese Literature of Loss — The Grief Beneath the Surface ► Friendship Loss — The Grief Nobody Talks About

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