Never Let Me Go Synopsis
THE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLER
A NEW YORK TIMES AND GUARDIAN BEST BOOK OF THE 21ST CENTURY
'Masterly.' Sunday Times
'A brilliantly executed book by a master craftsman.' MARGARET ATWOOD
'A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish.' TIME
**Complete with a brand new introduction from the Nobel Prize-winning author.**
A beautiful anniversary edition to mark twenty years of Kazuo Ishiguro's modern classic, in which he imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of 1990s England.
Narrated by Kathy H, as she tries to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, it is a story of love, friendship and memory, charged throughout with a sense of life's fragility.
Readers adore Never Let Me Go:
'A masterpiece . . . a beautifully written, skilfully crafted story that reveals what lies in the core of the human heart.'
'Touches the depths of your intellect and your soul.'
'A genuinely moving illustration of an aspect of human nature that we usually like to ignore.'
'I guarantee it will move you and probably bring you close to tears.'
'A masterful read: gripping, thought-provoking, and immensely sad . . . I have found myself thinking about it for days.'
'Undoubtedly a modern classic that spans genres.'
'I read it in a day and I am certain it will stay with me for years.'
About This Edition
| ISBN: |
9780571390878 |
| Publication date: |
13th March 2025 |
| Author: |
Kazuo Ishiguro |
| Publisher: |
Faber & Faber |
| Format: |
Paperback |
| Pagination: |
304 pages |
| Primary Genre |
Dystopian and utopian fiction
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About Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He attended the University of Kent and studied English Literature and Philosophy, and later enrolled in an MA in Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He is the author of the novels A Pale View of Hills (winner of the Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (winner of the 1986 Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, and shortlisted for the 1986 Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (winner of the 1989 Booker Prize) and When We Were Orphans (shortlisted for the 2000 Booker Prize and Whitbread Novel of the Year).
Kazuo Ishiguro's books have been translated into twenty-eight languages. The Remains of the Day became an international bestseller, with over a million copies sold in the English language alone, and was adapted into an award-winning film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson.
In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.
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