Never Let Me Go 2005
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Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, *Never Let Me Go* is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.
- Bleak ending
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Character
Earnest, grave, contemplative and prestige.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
- contemporarynostalgic
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- ines.vThe Empath★★★★★
I read the last forty pages standing up because I could not sit with them. Ishiguro writes acceptance as the saddest thing a person can do. I gave it five and I will never read it again.
About the book
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 2005
- Pages
- 319
- Publisher
- Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Verlagsgruppe Random House GmbH, Anagrama
- Editions
- 61
- Language
- glg, Japanese, tur, Italian
- ISBN
- 9788433915528
Where to read
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On Open Library, 144 have read it and 805 want to.
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 2017 citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro)
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