Contemporary fiction

Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro

A restrained speculative novel about love under impossible limits.

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Genre

Speculative literary fiction

Subgenre

Memory and bioethics novel

Original publication

2005

Original publisher

Faber and Faber

Pages

288

Format

Paperback, hardcover and ebook editions

Language

English

Setting

An alternate England

ISBN

9781400078776

Original title

Never Let Me Go

memory clones ethics friendship mortality school love speculative

About the book

Kathy remembers school, friendship and love while the true purpose of her life is gradually revealed.

A quiet but devastating fit for readers asking about memory, clones, ethics, friendship, mortality and restrained sorrow.

Ishiguro keeps the speculative premise muted, making emotional compliance and memory more important than worldbuilding mechanics.

It supports intent around bioethics, friendship, school memories, mortality and literary science fiction.