One of The New York Times's 10 Best Books of the 21st Century
As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special--and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
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About the Introducer: DAVID SEXTON is a British reviewer and critic. He was the Literary Editor of the London Evening Standard from 1997 to 2020 and is the author of The Strange World of Thomas Harris.
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Need a weekend read? Today’s book recommendation: In “Never Let Me Go,” Kazuo Ishiguro writes of life’s moments of sheer joy—making art, learning to cook, falling in love—and its inescapable end. Find more suggestions here: https://t.co/Tbsz2XYb11
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@DrJohnmauro He’s still got a special place in my heart, and I used to root for him every year to win the Nobel prize. One year I was mad he didn’t get it and said, “who is this guy?” It was Kazuo Ishiguro. I picked up Never Let Me Go and he’s been my favorite ever since.
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Kazuo Ishiguro's 2015 novel Never Let Me Go is compelling, outstanding, and thought-provoking. The novel takes place in a parallel universe in the 1990s in England, where human cloning is an accepted practice. Read our full review at https://t.co/Dxtit2dk6X #ESLwriters https://t.co/mUGymOKaUu
"A page turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish." --Time
"A Gothic tour de force. . . . A tight, deftly controlled story . . . . Just as accomplished [as The Remains of the Day] and, in a very different way, just as melancholy and alarming." --The New York Times
"Elegaic, deceptively lovely. . . . As always, Ishiguro pulls you under." --Newsweek
"Superbly unsettling, impeccably controlled . . . . The book's irresistible power comes from Ishiguro's matchless ability to expose its dark heart in careful increments." --Entertainment Weekly