Book Title: Never Let Me Go
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Synopsis: In one of the most acclaimed and original 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.
My thoughts on the book....
When I started reading this book, it took me a while to get into it. Its a story narrated by one of the characters and at times it seems like she wants to tell you everything in one go so she keeps jumping from incident to incident and if you are not following carefully, its easy to get lost! But once you are past the first 30 pages or so you get sucked into the story and its hard to put the book down after that. The story continues to be told by Kathy and is made up of various incidents in her life, and the book itself is divided into three parts with the story unravelling itself in layers, so that to begin with the reader isnt sure what exactly the novel is about.
Its a really good book to read, it reminds me of another one of my favourites, flowers for algernon, its laid out in a similar way and the ending too is similar and is bound to move you.
