A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

Informationen zum Autor Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go , both made into acclaimed films, have each sold over a million copies in Faber editions. He received a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan. His latest novel, Klara and the Sun , was published in 2021. Klappentext Reissue. Vorwort A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY Zusammenfassung OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE 'Brilliantly executed.' MARGARET ATWOOD 'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.' TIME 'Masterly.' SUNDAY TIMES One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life. 'Exquisite.' GUARDIAN 'A feat of imaginative sympathy.' NEW YORK TIMES What readers are saying: 'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.' 'I loved it, every single word of it.' 'It took me wholly by surprise.' 'Utterly beautiful.' 'Essentially perfect.' ...

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A SUNDAY TIMES TOP 100 NOVEL OF THE TWENTY-FIRST CENTURY

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Reissue.

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**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE

**'Brilliantly executed.'
MARGARET ATWOOD

'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'
TIME

'Masterly.'
SUNDAY TIMES

One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author

Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

'Exquisite.'
*GUARDIAN

• 'A feat of imaginative sympathy.'
  NEW YORK TIMES

  What readers are saying:

  'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.'
  'I loved it, every single word of it.'
  'It took me wholly by surprise.'
  'Utterly beautiful.'
  'Essentially perfect.'