1003. Never Let Me Go

Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005

Around 290 pages

I'll be overly dramatic in the next post about finishing this blog, don't worry. For now, we should talk about our last Ishiguro. Talk about finishing strong.

Here's the Ishiguro ranking:

1. Never Let Me Go

2. Remains of the Day

3. A Pale View of the Hills

4. The Unconsoled
5. An Artist of the Floating World

So yes, we are finishing with his masterpiece.  On the surface, Hailsham seems like a normal English boarding school. As a student of Hailsham, Kathy experiences the typical angst of girlhood, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the school that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

I don't want to give too much away about the plot of this story as it plays out like a mystery, as well as a sci-fi, romance, and coming of age tale. Like all great sci-fi authors, he is asking relevant and morally complex questions. This was much more like Margaret Atwood than his previous works, and I enjoyed the shift.

Can Keira Knightley star in every future movie based on a novel please?

RATING: *****

Interesting Facts:

Adapted to film in 2010.

Named the best novel of 2005 by Time magazine.

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