Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro.

Nov 11, 2015 11:08



Title: Never Let Me Go.
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro.
Genre: Fiction, coming-of-age, alternate universe, dystopia, science fiction.
Country: U.K.
Language: English.
Publication Date: June, 2005.
Summary: 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 - that they were all created and bred for a reason, and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.

My rating: 9/10.

bildungsroman, alternative history, philosophical fiction, british - fiction, science fiction, 1st-person narrative, dystopian fiction, fiction, 21st century - fiction, japanese - fiction, horror, romance, ethics (fiction), boarding schools (fiction), class struggle (fiction), 2000s

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