Synopsis
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, "Never Let Me Go" hauntingly 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.

It can be said about most (if not all) authors that each one just writes the same book throughout his or her career. Kazuo Ishiguro, a skilled and talented writer as he is, is no exception. Never Let Me Go is basically another version of his Booker-winning masterpiece, The Remains of the Day. It features the same writing trick (a "naive narrator"), it deals mostly with the same issues (inequality, deprivation, sense of duty, social segregation). Only it is set in a much less elaborate and rather unbelievable environment, written with a much poorer style and lacks any deep character development. If you have read The Remains of the Day, you can safely skip this novel; if you haven''t - please go and read it instead, to see Ishiguro at his best. Never Let Me Go is just an unsuccessful self-imitation.

RELEASE NOTES:

I have noticed that this book is on the Wish List of a good friend of mine, Atenea-Nike, so I am sending it to her as a surprise! Hope she hasn´t read it yet!! LOL!

Sweetpeeps kindly sent me this book from my wish list. I thank her from the bottom of my heart! Yet the book has definitely let me down. Her journal entry explains much better than I possibly could my feelings on the Tmatter. I am already bored with Kazuo Ishiguro's prose. "the remains of the day" was lovely, the characters deep, and the backwards narration was surprising and interesting. Now, several books later, the backwards narration is a worn-out trick that just doesn't sustain, by itself, a novel, when other things like a plot or solid characters are missing. But sweetpeeps said it better!

RELEASE NOTES:

In the ticket booths. On occasion of the International Film Festival of San Sebastián.

Lo encontré al salir del cine en San Sebastián. Pensé que era una señal, porque la película nos estaba gustando tan poco que nos salimos de la sesión, algo que no solemos hacer. Intentaré leerlo, aunque hace tanto que no leo en inglés...

CAUGHT IN SAN SEBASTIÁN GUIPÚZCOA SPAIN