Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

ISBN 10: 1400043395 / ISBN 13: 9781400043392

Published by Knopf, 2005

About this Item

Signed in person directly on the title page by Kazuo Ishiguro, winner of the 2017 Nobel Prize in literature. NOT signed to anyone. Photos of Kazuo Ishiguro at his book signing event will be included with the signed book. Stated First American Edition / First Printing. Hardcover. Book is fine and Unread in like new condition. Opened only for signing. No marks, no inscription. Not a book club edition, not an ex-library. Dust jacket is fine, not price clipped, in a removable, protective clear cover. This is a beautiful rare autographed first edition for collectors. Makes a great gift.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Never Let Me Go
• Publisher: Knopf
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 1400043395
• ISBN 13: 9781400043392
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Fiction

About this title

Synopsis

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance–and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro is the author of five previous novels, including The Remains of the Day, which won the Booker Prize and became an international best seller. His work has been translated into twenty-eight languages. In 1995 he received an Order of the British Empire for service to literature, and in 1998 was named a Chevalier de l’Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.