Never Let Me Go

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TitleNever Let Me Go
Year for Search2005
AuthorsIshiguro, Kazuo(b. 1954)
Date Published2005
PublisherFaber and Faber
Place PublishedLondon
KeywordsJapanese author, Male author, UK author
Annotation

Dystopia describing a future society where children are cloned and raised to become organ donors. The story is told from the point of view of one of the clones.

Additional Publishers

Rpt. with minor revisions and illus. Kate Miller. London: The Folio Society, 2012, with an Introduction by Claire Mussud (vii-xiv). U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.
Info Notes

A film with the same title directed by Mark Romanek (b. 1959) was released in 2010.
Author Note

The author (b. 1954) was born in Japan and has lived in the U.K. since 1960. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.
Full Text

2005 Ishiguro, Kazuo (b. 1954). Never Let Me Go. London: Faber and Faber. Rpt. with minor revisions and illus. Kate Miller. London: The Folio Society, 2012, with an Introduction by Claire Mussud (vii-xiv). U.S. ed. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2005.

Dystopia describing a future society where children are cloned and raised to become organ donors. The story is told from the point of view of one of the clones. A film with the same title directed by Mark Romanek (b. 1959) was released in 2010. The author was born in Japan and has lived in the U.K. since 1960. He won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.