Never Let Me Go
by Kazuo Ishiguro
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Author: Kazuo IshiguroEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2006-03-14
ISBN: 1400078776
Number of pages: 288
Publisher: Vintage
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Book Review: "GET OUT OF THE HOUSE!"
Summary: 5 Stars
I'll confess, the first time I picked up "Never Let Me Go", I did let it go. After reading 30 pages or so, I put it aside, thinking it was an attempt by a respected literary author to cross genres to allegorical sci-fi. Although I absolutely loved Ishiguro's "The Remains of the Day" and appreciated his "An Artist of the Floating World," I wasn't in the mood for the dubious science that goes along with most sci-fi thrillers.
What was I thinking? How could I have been so wrong? Did I need to be hit on the head?
I'm SO glad my husband persuaded me to give it another go!
Once again, Kazuo Ishiguro blew me away with his subtle mastery of language and his understanding of human nature and psychology. This is a story that can be read and interpreted on many levels, with many truths to discover and discuss.
I was taken by the similarities between these "sci-fi" characters and those of us in the "ordinary" world. I was struck by the revelation that Cathy, Tommy and Ruth are people like us; people who live, work, and all- too-soon die in a structured world not of our making. A world run by a complex set of perceived rules, many of them unwritten and unspoken.
Why don't they rebel against their condition? Why are they so accepting? So passive? I wanted to shake them by their shoulders and tell them, Get out of the house! Run for your lives! Fight for your freedom! DO SOMETHING!
Yet these acquiescent characters taught me something about living, giving and loving, as well. Because some things you can't change. We all have to die, and we all have our sacrifices ("donations") to make. So maybe they had the right idea after all...
This profound, elegantly-crafted work made me examine myself and the world I live in from an entirely new perspective. As any good book, it raised more questions than it answered. My husband and I will likely be discussing it for some time.
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