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Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

Published2005
Pages272
Open Library3.8 / 5
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Excerpt

Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, *Never Let Me Go* is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.

Literary origin

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  • United Kingdom

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Subjects

  • Fiction
  • Organ donors
  • Cloning
  • Donation of organs, tissues
  • Women
  • Literature
  • New York Times bestseller
  • nyt:trade_fiction_paperback=2010-09-05
  • Human cloning
  • Science fiction

Times & places

  • Late 1990s
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