Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Never Let Me Go!
All children should believe they are special. But the students of Hailsham,
an elite school in the English countryside, are so special that visitors shun
them, and only by rumor and the occasional fleeting remark by a teacher
do they discover their unconventional origins and strange destiny. Kazuo
Ishiguros sixth novel, Never Let Me Go, is a masterpiece of indirection.
Like the students of Hailsham, readers are told but not told what is going
on and should be allowed to discover the secrets of Hailsham and the truth
about these children on their own. Offsetting the bizarreness of these
revelations is the placid, measured voice of the narrator, Kathy H., a 31-
year-old Hailsham alumna who, at the close of the 1990s, is consciously
ending one phase of her life and beginning another. She is in a reflective
mood, and recounts not only her childhood memories, but her quest in
adulthood to find out more about Hailsham and the idealistic women who
ran it. Although often poignant, Kathys matter-of-fact narration blunts the
sharper emotional effects you might expect in a novel that deals with
illness, self-sacrifice, and the severe restriction of personal freedoms. As

in Ishiguros best-known work, The Remains of the Day, only after closing
the book do you absorb the magnitude of what his characters endure.
--Regina Marler
Personal Review: Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
First off I want to address that this book was written by a master. Kazuo
Ishiguro made this book so good that when I was done reading it I had to
sit there in silence to think..what if? It's funny because I am a former
cancer patient and after I had finished reading this novel I had to think
about the future of science. There are already clear examples in todays
world that are clear representations of points Kazuo makes in "Never Let
Me Go." The idea that if something ethically inappropriate or frowned upon
was occurring in the U.S. that the people and the gov't would want it to be
as far and out of sight as possible. Like they do in the book, the schools for
the child donors are in the country side cut off from society. Like so many
people in our world today we don't see animals being slaughtered or
treated poorly and it is because it doesn't happen where we can see it. Not
to get political or anything but another example would be President Bush's
ban on media taking pictures of the fallen war heroes in their coffins. He
was trying to avoid hurting the war effort. That example might be tougher
to connect but "Never Let Me Go" is definitely worth reading. It has a few
moments where it may seem to get pretty dull but stick through it because
the ending is to good to miss! I was recommended this book from my
former AP Lit teacher and I must say, she sure can pick em.
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