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Cover of “Never Let Me Go” by Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro · 2005

288 pages

Kathy, Tommy and Ruth grow up together at an English boarding school where the children are treated as special and kept apart from the world. As adults they learn what they were made for, and try to hold on to love and dignity in a life they cannot choose. A quiet, sad speculative novel.

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Dystopia, Star-Crossed Lovers, Love Triangle, Unreliable Narrator, Boarding School, Coming of Age, Melancholic

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