NEVER LET ME GO Kazuo Ishiguro
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Kazuo Ishiguro Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954. He came to Britain in 1960 when his father began research at the National Institute of Oceanography, and was educated at a grammar school for boys in Surrey. Afterwards he worked as a grouse-beater for the Queen Mother at Balmoral before enrolling at the University of Kent, Canterbury, where he read English and Philosophy. He was also employed as a community worker in Glasgow (1976), and after graduating worked as a residential social worker in London. He studied Creative Writing at the University of East Anglia. He has been writing full-time since 1982. Ishiguro's third novel, The Remains of the Day(1989), was awarded the Booker Prize for Fiction. His work has been translated into more than forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of one million copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. In 2017 he won the Nobel Prize for Literature.
Selected Works Novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982) An Artist of the Floating World (1986) The Remains of the Day (1989) The Unconsoled (1995) When We Were Orphans (2000) Never Let Me Go (2005) The Buried Giant (2015) Short-story collections: Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall (2009) Screenplays: The Saddest Music in the World (2003) The White Countess (2005)
Never let me go A a devastating novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. 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. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is modern classic.
Reviews Kazuo Ishiguro is a master storyteller, in a class of his own making. In this, his sixth and strangest novel, his narrative brilliance depends, as always, on over-simplicity, a highly provocative idiom which embraces both the prosaic and the prissy. (The Independent) Kazuo Ishiguro fascinates with his subtle take on mortality and hopelessness (The Guardian)
Interesting links Author's website: https://theburiedgiant.co.uk
Review in The Guardian (SPOILERS!!!): https://www.theguardian.com/books/2005/feb/26/bookerprize2005.bookerp rize
Review in The Independent: https://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/books/reviews/neverlet-me-go-by-kazuo-ishiguro-746328.html
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