About Never Let Me Go
A thirty-one-year-old woman named Kathy narrates this haunting tale, drawing the reader gradually into her recollections of her life at Hailsham, the idyllic boarding school where she grew up. She and her best friends, Ruth and Tommy, were encouraged by their teachers to create works of art from an early age, to collect cherished objects, and to take good care of their health. There are no parents in their world, only a handful of teachers, some of whom seem to be deeply troubled by their position at the school. Kathy’s friend Ruth is bossy and manipulative, while Kathy herself is gentle and self-contained. Both are drawn to Tommy, a boy given to explosive fits of temper. What is revealed, as Kathy’s reminiscences accumulate, is a life of preparation for a special role in a world that has begun to exploit the medical possibilities of genetic technology.

A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance—and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

About Author Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan in 1954 and grew up in  Britain. 

In 1982 he published A Pale View of Hills, which won the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, and in 1983 he was nominated by Granta magazine as one of the 20 ‘Best of Young British Writers’.  An Artist of the Floating World followed in 1986, and won the Whitbread Book of the Year award and was shortlisted for the Booker Prize for Fiction.

The Remains of the Day, his best-known work, was published in 1989. It won the Booker Prize for Fiction and was later made into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled was published in 1995 and his fifth When We Were Orphans in 2000.

His most recent novel, Never Let Me Go, was published in 2005. He has also recently completed his first full-length screenplay for The Saddest Music in the World, a melodrama set in the 1930s, starring Isabella Rossellini.