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**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD**
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
#9 in the New York Times ‘100 Best Books of the 21st Century’

‘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 author

Kazuo 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.’

Additional information

Weight 0.4 kg
Dimensions 1.8 × 12.9 × 19.8 cm
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Format

Paperback
Language

Pages

304
Publisher

Year Published

2010-2-25
Edition Number

Main edition
For Ages
Publication City/Country

London, Unitd Kingdom
ISBN 10

0571258093
About The Author

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His books have been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were both made into acclaimed films. He received a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. His most recent novel, Klara and the Sun was a number one Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback., (Shorter/Catalogue version)

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize, and have been translated into over fifty languages. His most recent novel, Klara and the Sun was a number one Sunday Times bestseller in both hardback and paperback.
Review Quote

Masterly… A novel with piercing questions about humanity and humaneness. ― Sunday Times

A brilliantly executed book by a master craftsman who has chosen a difficult subject: ourselves, seen through a glass, darkly. — Margaret Atwood ― Slate.com

A page-turner and a heartbreaker, a tour de force of knotted tension and buried anguish. ― Time

A master stoyteller … In this deceptively sad novel, he simply uses a science-fiction framework to throw light on ordinary human life, the human soul, human sexuality, love, creativity and childhood innocence. He does so with devastating effect. ― Independent

A clear frontrunner to be the year's most extraordinary novel. ― Sunday Times

Brilliant. The most exact and affecting of his novels to date. ― Observer
Back Cover Copy

In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo 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 hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at a seemingly idyllic school, Hailsham, 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

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