Summer Reads - Never Let Me Go 08/31/10

Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro – I read this book a few years ago. Without giving too much away it’s, well, it’s an unexpected and poignant novel that grabs hold and doesn’t want to let go – appropriate title. Told from Kathy’s viewpoint, readers uncover strange twists in the lives of several special boarding school classmates. It’s not a beach read, but a late summer approaching harvest kind of serious. I recently read of the forthcoming movie and was reminded of how I felt reading the book. Since there are some clues in the movie trailer, you might want to check out the book first and then watch it or see the movie in September.

Here is a description from Random House: From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day comes a devastating new novel of innocence, knowledge, and loss. As children Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. 

Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special–and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together. Suspenseful, moving, beautifully atmospheric, Never Let Me Go is another classic by the author of The Remains of the Day.