Never Let Me Go

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282 pages

English language

Published 2006

ISBN:
978-0-571-22413-5
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4 stars (1 review)

Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "100 Best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME". It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.

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4 stars

I liked the diary or memoir like writing style and the slow evolving story of this novel. Strong character development going on here as well. The world building here is deeply dystopion but ramps up the more pages you turn, as the protagonist more or less chronologically describes her growing up and discovering the world around her.

It takes place in the past (~1990s) but is only based to some extend on real world at that time but builds an alternative, though mostly very familar world (well, Great Britain mostly).

Without spoilering too much, but some story/world building elements seem unplausible to exist in such a global (national?) scale. But then again, its an alternative past kind of story.

3.5 Stars.