Never Let Me Go

De: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrado por: Rosalyn Landor

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic.

One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years

As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were.

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.

Won't Let You Go

Don't think that you'll be able to finish this masterpiece and then forget about it. This remarkable novel is too bizarre and unsettling to easily put out of your mind. I couldn't. Perfectly written, expertly read, and very, very sad.

thought provoking

This is a very thought-provoking book. It raises a lot of questions about human nature and morality. It is also a very sad tale about people, ultimately. It's a must read.

So much missed opportunity

Once it's fully revealed the purpose of the pupils at the school serve for society, there was so much opportunity to expound the story and make it great that was just foregone. The passive acceptance of the students feels so illogical and wrong that it required me to just accept some sort of reality where this would be acceptable and I couldn't wrap my mind around it. The opportunity was there to tell a much more inspired story but instead the author remains in the mediocre by allowing all these characters to just accept a reality that goes against the crux of human nature and that made it so unbelievable that it robbed a lot of enjoyment of the story. I lost my ability to relate to the characters and root for them because their actions went so against the grain of humanity and human nature. The story did keep me entertained but this feeling of being unbalanced where the characters acceptance seems so illogical prevented it from being a great story or believable.

The ending tells all - savor the wait.

Details written in an engrossing style, captures your imagination, creates images and makes you remember images from your own life too. At moments I was tempted to set this aside as dreary -- so glad I didn't. Speaker was perfect. if your ready for depth, and not in need of uplifting at the moment, try this book. Makes you ponder what kindness really is -- and the darkness behind silence and condescension.

Narrator was impressive

The narrator did a fantastic job with the different voices. She even did a great French accent!