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A list of important facts about Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, including setting, climax, protagonists, and antagonists.
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Never Let Me Go takes place in a dystopian version of late...
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Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man 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.
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- Never Let Me Go was originally about lounge singers. The characters were living in 1950s America and pursuing careers on Broadway; as Ishiguro told Poets & Writers, “The book would both be about that world and resemble its songs.”
- Ishiguro came up with narrator Kathy H. 15 years before he published Never Let Me Go. Initially, the character who would become the narrator of Never Let Me Go popped up in a vague idea for a book about young people hanging out and arguing about books in a time like the 1970s.
- The author nixed a few ideas for what that “strange fate” would be. At first, Ishiguro thought his characters would live a regular human lifespan more quickly than normal people—in 30 years rather than 80.
- According to Ishiguro, the boarding school is “a physical manifestation for what we have to do to all children.” Ishiguro’s clones are raised in a boarding school called Hailsham, where the truth about their purpose is hidden from them.
Never Let Me Go. Among dystopian science fiction novels, Never Let Me Go is unique in its nonconformity to the standard patterns of the genre. It tells its haunting story about the moral hazards of technological advances by focusing on the lives and relationships of children at a boarding school as they grow up together.
Never Let Me Go —set in England in the 1990s—is narrated by Kathy H., a former student at Hailsham, and now a “carer” who helps “donors” recuperate after they give away their organs. The novel opens at Hailsham, an idyllic community flanked by football fields and filled with students and kind “guardians,” like Miss Geraldine ...
PDF Cite. Never Let Me Go tranquilly opens with thirty-one-year-old Kathy H., a “carer” for “donors” who will mysteriously “complete,” that is, die, who is about to become a donor...
