Title: Never Let Me Go
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Original language: English
Translation(s): 52 languages
Context: Never Let Me Go (2005) is a translated novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. The novel is a morally courageous, tender and heartbreaking, edge-of-your-seat mystery that brings about what being human means.
Synopsis: The story starts with a pleasant English boarding school, Hailsham void of any influences of the urban area. Students at the school are supported, taken care of well and provided training in literature and art. They are groomed in a way they turn out to be the kind of people the outside world would want them to be. However, the only drawback is that they are not provided any education about the outside world. In fact they are not provided with any contact or exposure with the world outside. Kathy is a school girl who grows up to be a young woman, within the grounds of Hailsham.
She along with her friends Tommy and Ruth, come to know the complete truth about the school Hailsham when they make the decision of leaving the safe grounds of this school. All boundaries of a literary novel are broken by the novel Never Let Me Go. It is not only an amazing love story but also a gripping mystery and a scathing critique of moral examination and human arrogance on how the different and vulnerable are treated in society.
Other works by the Author:
Novels
1982 – A Pale View of Hills
1986 – An Artist of the Floating World
1989 – The Remains of the Day
1995 – The Unconsoled
2000 – When We Were Orphans
2015 – The Buried Giant
2021 – Klara and the Sun
Short-story collections
2009 – Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall
Screenplays
1984 – A Profile of Arthur J. Mason
1987 – The Gourmet
2003 – The Saddest Music in the World
2005 – The White Countess
Short Fiction
1981 – A Strange and Sometimes Sadness
1983 – A Family Supper
1983 – Summer After the War
1985 – October 1948
2001 – A Village After Dark