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  • Never Let Me Go

  • 20th anniversary edition
  • Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro
  • Narrated by: Kerry Fox
  • Length: 9 hrs and 26 mins
  • 4.2 out of 5 stars (73 ratings)

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Never Let Me Go

Written by: Kazuo Ishiguro
Narrated by: Kerry Fox
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Publisher's Summary

In one of the most acclaimed novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England.

Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go dramatizes her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship, and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

©2013 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2013 Faber & Faber

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Brilliant

This is the best book I've read in a while. The way in which the story is revealed to you, is a masterpiece.

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Leaves you uneasy, yet calm

The book leads you somewhere between feelings of a calm resignation about relationships and a mysterious distrust of scientific research. As a reader you sigh and go on reading. You want a different end and yet you accept what Kazuo offers. The narration, by the way, is one of the best I've come across in the past year. - Arvind Passey - Blog: www.passey.info

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average story, superb narration

it's an easy read/ listen. The story is simple yet dark. I thought the last two chapters rushed through the plot, revealing what is slightly evident from earlier chapters. Somehow the story seemed incomplete to me.
The narrator is awesome though!!

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Brilliant story

Such a gut wrenching story about the depths we can go to as a society to serve our causes. Brilliantly performed.
Thoroughly enjoyed this one.

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Sublime....

Captures emotional tussle well. Unfolding of events captured beautifully. The pathos of main characters is extremely touching.

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Very good

The story was not a masterpiece by any means but the narration was beautiful and made up for some flaws present. Lovely experience overall and definitely recommended.

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Emotional and fulfilling

This was non-unlistenable! Such a beautiful book with such beautifully etched characters and so beautifully read. One of the best audiobooks!

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not great but has potential

Not a great fan of dystopian but this one was half decent. Set in an imaginary world, about almost a century ago, the story sheds light on a lot of morals, ethical values we need to have as a race, through this world and their characters. This theme, although not very obvious in the story telling, was what fascinated me, though I did not really care much for the writing (surprising coz I have really high standards for Kazuo Ishiguro), there were times I wished the book did not sound as if written from the pov of a teenager.

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touching

A touching story of how clones were reared. They were brought up with a sense of (unknown) purpose at Haylshm. They do have souls but the sense of purpose kept them detached from life. They just moved from the rearing ground to the slaughterhouse and just 'complete' what is expected of them.

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