num_pages: 288
description: Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. 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. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.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 breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. 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. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.
language: English
title: Never Let Me Go
titlecomplete: Never Let Me Go
characters: Ruth (Never Let Me Go), Kathy H., Tommy D.
genres: Literature, Science Fiction, Classics, Literary Fiction, Novels, Adult, Fiction, Dystopia, Contemporary, Romance
ratings_count: 656448
places: Hailsham, England, United Kingdom
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: Alfred A. Knopf