Never Let Me Go

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Publicerades 4 januari 2009 av Faber and Faber Ltd.

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978-0-571-24938-1
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A clear frontrunner to be the years most extraordinary novel . . . Not since The Remains of the Day has Ishiguro written about wasted lives with such finely gauged forlornness.' Sunday TimesIn one of the most acclaimed and original novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly 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.

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recenserade Never Let Me Go av Kazuo Ishiguro

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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.

recenserade Never Let Me Go av Kazuo Ishiguro

The tension of living

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.