Never Let Me Go
Registered by nordie of Birmingham, West Midlands United Kingdom on 1/12/2007
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In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go hauntingly 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.
read for the August 2010 Urban Coffee Company (Birmingham) book group.
Book I would never had picked up if it hadn't been for the book group and it certainly is different. Set in a subtly different world where children are growing up in a privileged school, protected and taught by "guardians", only to find out that they are clones - of unknown and never met "possibles" - and have been bred to donate major organs for others.
The main part of the story is based on the children growing up, looking back from adulthood, as Kathy has spent her time "caring" for some of her previous schoolmates as they donate 2, 3 or even more times before "completing". Everything is seemingly normal, and accepted/acceptable as a "normal", and their fate. Noone seems to consider *not* doing it and going off to do something else. Noone seems to comment on or miss they never had any parents and why they seem to have been abandoned to this fate. How are they bred and born and by whom? Many questions are left wide open, never to be answered, but the book is written in such a way that it seems accepted by the characters, and in turn accepted by the reader.
Book I would never had picked up if it hadn't been for the book group and it certainly is different. Set in a subtly different world where children are growing up in a privileged school, protected and taught by "guardians", only to find out that they are clones - of unknown and never met "possibles" - and have been bred to donate major organs for others.
The main part of the story is based on the children growing up, looking back from adulthood, as Kathy has spent her time "caring" for some of her previous schoolmates as they donate 2, 3 or even more times before "completing". Everything is seemingly normal, and accepted/acceptable as a "normal", and their fate. Noone seems to consider *not* doing it and going off to do something else. Noone seems to comment on or miss they never had any parents and why they seem to have been abandoned to this fate. How are they bred and born and by whom? Many questions are left wide open, never to be answered, but the book is written in such a way that it seems accepted by the characters, and in turn accepted by the reader.
Picked this up at my first Bookcrossing 'meet' at Hudson's Coffee Shop, in Birmingham, earlier today.
Looking forward to reading it as I enjoyed The Remains of the Day.
Added later: A thought-provoking 'take' on boarding school life, but with a look to a possible future.
Definitely worth reading, though as a biologist, I had some questions that were not answered, which I found a little frustrating.
Looking forward to reading it as I enjoyed The Remains of the Day.
Added later: A thought-provoking 'take' on boarding school life, but with a look to a possible future.
Definitely worth reading, though as a biologist, I had some questions that were not answered, which I found a little frustrating.
Journal Entry 4 by BioDuo at Grand Hotel Beverley Hills foyer in Roma, Lazio Italy on Wednesday, October 27, 2010
Released 13 yrs ago (10/28/2010 UTC) at Grand Hotel Beverley Hills foyer in Roma, Lazio Italy
WILD RELEASE NOTES:
Intend to leave this in the foyer of the hotel