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From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.
Knopf
April 2005
On Sale: April 1, 2005
304 pages
ISBN: 1400043395
EAN: 9781400043392
Hardcover
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As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at
Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English
countryside where the children were sheltered from the
outside world, brought up to believe that they were special
and that their well-being was crucial not only for
themselves but for the society they would eventually enter.
Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but
when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life,
she stops resisting the pull of memory. And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as
the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on
Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years
at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls
growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their
isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of
discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret
behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning
clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to
face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives
now. 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.
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