Why did David love this book?
A stellar example of what a literary master can do with a science fiction theme, Never Let Me Go is a gripping novel that explores fundamental questions about what it means to be human, one of my favorite themes in any kind of fiction.
Through the consciousness of its young narrator, it drew me into a world only subtly different from ours, but as that difference became more apparent, it was also more disturbing. As I came to love and care for the narrator and her two friends, Ishiguro gradually revealed their terrible fate, one I found more difficult than the protagonists did to accept.
The book’s themes of injustice, class, love, and loss stayed with me long after I finished reading it.
14 authors picked Never Let Me Go as one of their favorite books, and they share why you should read it.
One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author
Shortlisted for the Man 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…