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Never Let Me Go
- Narrated by: Rosalyn Landor
- Length: 9 hrs and 42 mins
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Publisher's Summary
From the Nobel Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and Klara and the Sun, comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well-tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.
Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.
What the critics say
2005, Booker Prize, Nominated
2005, National Book Critics Circle Awards, Nominated
2006, Commonwealth Writers Prize for Best Book (Eurasia), Nominated
2006, IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, Nominated
"Ishiguro’s provocative subject matter and taut, potent prose have earned him multiple literary decorations, including the French government’s Chevalier dans l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres and an Order of the British Empire for service to literature. . . . In this luminous offering, he nimbly navigates the landscape of emotion—the inevitable link between present and past and the fine line between compassion and cruelty, pleasure and pain." (Booklist)
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- Anonymous User
- 2022-11-30
Thought Provoking
Great story! Slow start though. The theme doesn’t really reveal until halfway through. Good thing I didn’t give up.
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- Rand
- 2021-02-09
One of the greatest novels in recent history
The reader does a great job with the material. Essential reading, and it makes for excellent conversations if you work through it as a group.
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- Mr Anthony Heslington
- 2020-09-11
Gentle and loving
You might wish for a woman as kind and thoughtful as Kathy. A reminder to treasure that which is important in an unkind world.
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- Truthful Holmes
- 2020-06-09
Simply beautiful.
A lovely story. I am not sure that it is not better than Remains of the Day. Certainly the performance is very well done. A beautiful book beautifully read.
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- Neil G.
- 2019-02-17
Shockingly Dull
If you are expecting some insight into a dystopian future and ethical quandaries be prepared for disappointment. This story drones on and on with trivial school age memories and barely scratches the surface of what could be an interesting premise. Narration is very good but not enough to pull this story out of boredom.
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- Anonymous User
- 2024-02-24
Weird to say the least
This story is weird. It’s very slow and there isn’t much plot to it, but the emotion it pulled from me was astounding given the pacing. The characters are deep and compelling and the world they live in is so complicated and dark, yet also so closely reflects our own. This book made me think, laugh, and doubt much of what I knew to be true about the human condition. Definitely one I won’t forget any time soon.
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- karen Phillips
- 2023-10-02
Beautiful story
Beautiful story. Thought provoking leaves you thinking about the characters for days. Generally I listen to books to and from work. This one I also listened to while painting in the evening.
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- Jan
- 2023-07-07
10 hours I’m not getting back
I kept waiting for something. Anything that matched the description but never happened. TG for 1.5 speed.
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- Amazon Customer
- 2023-02-15
Fairy unique and interesting perfect performance
Very creative, very interesting and orated perfectly
I have listen to a lot of audiobooks
And this reading performance was the absolute best
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- Amazon Customer
- 2022-11-24
A beautiful idea - robotic delivery
Was sooo hard to stay tuned into this one. Really monotonous and lacking any tension
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