It was also adapted into a 2010 feature film starring Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Never Let Me Go was shortlisted for the was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize, the 2006 Arthur C. The story begins with Kathy, who describes herself as a carer, talking about looking after organ donors. 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. (Book 1 From 1001 books) - Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro Never Let Me Go, is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel, by Nobel Prize-winning British author Kazuo Ishiguro. The teenagers in Kazuo Ishiguro's bravura new novel seem, at first meeting, like any other group of privileged. Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. 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. 'Never Let Me Go' By Kazuo Ishiguro 288 pages. Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. Kazuo Ishiguro on love, pixies and Camelot.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, the novel, by envisioning a world superficially similar to our own, forces us to interrogate that uncomfortable truth. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it. 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.

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Kazuo Ishiguro wins Nobel Prize for Literature

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