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.

石黑一雄，日裔英國小說傢，1954年生於日本長崎，與奈保爾、拉什迪並稱為“英國文壇移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品並不多，但幾乎每部作品都獲得重要的文學奬項：《遠山淡影》獲溫尼弗雷德·霍爾比紀念奬，《浮世畫傢》獲惠特布萊德年度最佳小說奬，《長日將盡》獲布剋奬，《無可慰藉》獲切爾特納姆文學藝術奬，《浮世畫傢》《我輩孤雛》和《莫失莫忘》均入圍布剋奬決選名單；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文學領域的大英帝國勛章，1998年獲法國文學藝術騎士勛章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，發掘瞭隱藏在我們與世界的虛幻聯係之下的深淵”而獲諾貝爾文學奬。