- Booker Prize 2005 · Shortlist
Never Let Me Go
Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro (born 1954)
English editions
Written in EnglishNever Let Me Go
Faber and Faber · United Kingdom · 13 March 2025 · Paperback
Never Let Me Go
Alfred A. Knopf · United States · 2005 · 288 pages
Never Let Me Go
Vintage · United States · 14 March 2006 · Paperback · 304 pages
Never Let Me Go
Faber and Faber · United Kingdom · 25 February 2010 · Paperback
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Kathy, thirty-one, tells the story of her time with Ruth and Tommy at Hailsham, a school in rural England that looked like paradise. Sealed off from everything beyond its grounds, its pupils were taught that they were special. Recalling those years and the ones after, Kathy follows the friendships, jealousies and love among the three of them, and the gradual way they understood the real purpose of Hailsham and the future that had always been waiting for them. Set in an eerily altered England near the end of the twentieth century, the novel is about love and friendship, about memory, and about how brief a life can be.
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About the book
- Form
- Novel
- Genres
- Speculative, Coming of age (assigned by AI)
- Set in
- United Kingdom, 1990s
- First published
- 2005
- Author's age
- 51 when first published
- ISBN
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9781400043392 (Alfred A. Knopf, United States)
9781400078776 (Vintage, United States)
9780571258093 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)
9780571390878 (Faber and Faber, United Kingdom)
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