Never Let Me Go - BokDraken

288 sidor

På English

Publicerades 5 januari 2010 av Vintage International.

ISBN:: 978-1-4000-7877-6
OCLC-nummer:: 70236408
Goodreads:: 6334

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human. 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.

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Björn recenserade Never Let Me Go av Kazuo Ishiguro

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3 stjärnor

Maybe it's that I'd seen the film and knew every path the story would take, maybe it's that Ishiguro managed to make Kathy sound eerily like ChatGPT, maybe it's the annoyance at people telling me this isn't "Sci-Fi" but REAL literature, but something about this didn't quite grab me. It's a good piece of worldbuilding and good narrative trickery, and I do like that there's no big action setpieces, but... at least ONE look from outside? At least ONE moment of at least thinking about refusing? I like it, but can't shake the idea that Ishiguro says in 318 pages what LeGuin's Omelas said in 4.

sifuCJC recenserade Never Let Me Go av Kazuo Ishiguro

The tension of living

5 stjärnor

The disturbing premise of the novel is revealed quickly, but daily life just continues. It creates a tension that lasts all through the story. Although there's no need for a big reveal, the journey becomes heartbreaking.

Although the novel's premise could be called science fiction, it's a character-driven literary work.

The disturbing premise of the novel is revealed quickly, but daily life just continues. It creates a tension that lasts all through the story. Although there's no need for a big reveal, the journey becomes heartbreaking.

Although the novel's premise could be called science fiction, it's a character-driven literary work.

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