Scientific advancement has made it possible. Knowing no other worlds, the children grow up in the sheltered, fenced-in compound of Hailsham, accepting their predetermined fate with docility. They are told and yet not told, for theirs is a vague notion of who they really are or what is in store for them in the future. They are to keep their bodies healthy and strong for that’s the purpose of their lives. Children of the exclusive boarding school Hailsham are told they are special from a very young age. Never Let Me Go is Ishiguro’s fourth nomination short-listed for the Booker Prize, which he won in 1989 with The Remains of the Day.īased on a scientific premise, Never Let Me Go is a beautiful love story told with aching poignancy.

He is one of the most acclaimed English language writers today, listed by The Times as one of the 50 greatest British writers since 1945. So there, even the author himself condones spoilers, for he knows there are much more to be pondered upon once the veil is removed.īorn in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro‘s family moved to England when he was six. ” … in a funny sort of way, I almost wanted the mystery aspect to be taken away so that people could conentrate on other aspects of the book.” While Never Let Me Go is a story of slow revealing, author Kazuo Ishiguro, in a Time magazine interview, admits that: It is this key ingredient in the plot that instills meaning to the novel and now the film. I must first declare this Sp oiler Alert: It is impossible to write about the book and the movie clearly without stating the crux of the story. 5, 2017: Kazuo Ishiguro has just won the Nobel Prize for Literature)

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