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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

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Narrated by Kathy, now 31, this book 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, it is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD**SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE'Brilliantly executed.' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'TIME'Masterly.' SUNDAY TIMES One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning authorKazuo 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 of the fragility of life.'Exquisite.'GUARDIAN'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' NEW YORK TIMES What readers are saying:'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.''I loved it, every single word of it.''It took me wholly by surprise.''Utterly beautiful.''Essentially perfect.'

Format:
Paperback / softback
Pages:
304
Publisher:
Faber & Faber
ISBN:
9780571258093
Published Date:
25/2/2010
Dimensions:
198mm x 129mm x 18mm
Weight:
253g
Category:
Religious & spiritual fiction

RRP: £9.99

Format: Paperback / softback

ISBN: 9780571258093

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