A reunion with two childhood friends draws Kathy and her companions on a nostalgic odyssey into their lives at Hailsham, an isolated private school in the English countryside, and a confrontation with the truth about their childhoods.
The narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro's sixth novel is a woman named Kathy H., a graduate of an experimental English boarding school called Hailsham who, many years later, becomes curious about the true nature of the place. Along with Tommy, one of her two best friends from those days, Kathy does some research into Hailsham. What she finds is a stunning revelation about herself and her fellow graduates, and raises questions about cloning, genetic experimentation, and their consequences. Ishiguro's first science-fiction novel, NEVER LET ME GO examines a philosophy that is intrinsically antihuman even as it probes deeply into its characters' touching and vulnerable humanity. NEVER LET ME GO was short-listed for both the 2005 Booker Prize and the Arthur C. Clarke Award for science fiction.
- Genre: Fiction + Literature Themes, Science Fiction + Fantasy, Fiction + Literature Genres
- Subgenre: Science + Technology, General, Family + Friendship, Literary, Dystopia / Utopia, Education
- Publisher: Vintage Books
- Pages: 288
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Format: paperback
- Release Date: March 14, 2006
- Date Published: March 14, 2006
- Author: Kazuo Ishiguro