num_pages: 263
description: Kazuo Ishiguro has been acclaimed in the Sunday Times for 'extending the possibilities of fiction. In Never Let Me Go he has fashioned another remarkable story - a story of love, loss and hidden truths - that takes its place among his finest work.Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there?It is only years later that Kathy, now aged thirty-one, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy slowly come to face the truth about their seemingly happy childhoods - and about their futures.Never Let Me Go is a uniquely moving novel, charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of our lives.
language: English
title: Never Let Me Go
titlecomplete: Never Let Me Go
characters: Tommy D., Ruth (Never Let Me Go), Kathy H.
genres: Dystopia, Literary Fiction, Novels, Science Fiction, Literature, Adult, Classics, Romance, Fiction, Contemporary
ratings_count: 656413
places: England, United Kingdom, Hailsham
awards: awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: Booker Prize, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Locus Award
category: Best SF Novel, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Arthur C. Clarke Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: James Tait Black Memorial Prize
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: ALA Alex Award, awardedAt: 1104566400000
name: National Book Critics Circle Award
category: Fiction, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Premio Novela Europea Casino de Santiago, awardedAt: 1136102400000
name: Corine Internationaler Buchpreis
category: Belletristik, awardedAt: 1167638400000
name: Dublin Literary Award
publisher: Faber and Faber