Never Let Me Go is told from the perspective of Kathy, a clone, as she looks back on her childhood and youth, especially on her friendship with classmates Tommy and Ruth. Kathy and the other clones she grew up with are kept separate from the normal society, destined to first become carers for other clones, and then donors of vital organs for the rest of the population. Even though she knows her ultimate destiny, Kathy struggles with friendship, love, and the meaning of her life.
here is no way around revealing the premise of Kazuo Ishiguros new novel It is brutal especially for a writer celebrated as a poet of the unspoken But it takes a while for us to get a handle on it Since its the nature of Ishiguro narrators to postpone a full reckoning of their place in the world all we know in the early going is that we dont quite know whats going on We have inklings The novels 31 year old narrator Kathy H announces on the first page that she has worked for more than 11 years a
In Never Let Me Go a fictional story focusing on three classmates from a unique boarding school author Kazuo Ishiguro deals with questions of loss and mortality that each of must eventually confront As we get older as we lose our friends and family as the environment around us changes and things once familiar to us disappear or become unfamiliar as we cling to our memories of how things used to be how do we come to accept the fact that our lives are finite and attach some meaning to our limited