From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.
Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.
Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.
Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.
His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.
His novels An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005) were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.
In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".
第一次读到石黑一雄是他那本处女作《远山淡影》,他在小说里不厌其烦地描述一个日本女人的内心幻象,结局令人难以忘怀。今天早上花了两个小时读完了他的名作《别让我走》,村上春树曾经把这本书形容为“半个世纪以来读到的最好的小说”。 和川端康成一样,石黑一雄喜欢描述人...
評分今天讲两个故事。第一个故事来自我正在看的一本小说,玛格丽特·阿特伍德的《使女的故事》,讲的是一个叫基列共和国的虚拟国家的事儿,它的前身是美国,如今已经被宗教原教旨主义者控制。基列共和国可不是什么好地方,现代文明有什么,它就否定什么,我们喜欢干什么,...
評分Personally I love this book. What I'm not comfortable with is the description given in the rating. Instead of judgemental phrase like '推荐', I prefer something more personal like 'like it' or 'love it'. Now comes to the book. I have to admit, at first I ...
評分Personally I love this book. What I'm not comfortable with is the description given in the rating. Instead of judgemental phrase like '推荐', I prefer something more personal like 'like it' or 'love it'. Now comes to the book. I have to admit, at first I ...
評分I love this book. I just love it. In fact I watched the trailer of "Never let me go" on iTunes, and just couldn't wait for the movie. I searched internet for this novel immediately and bought in that same afternoon. It is very disturbing reading the story...
impressive and powerful
评分這本書可以說的東西其實太多瞭。和Ruth的那些談話,充滿包容和理解的友情乃至於在人際交往中所有的微妙與不言而喻。他們一直都很慢,於是隻能被動前行,溺死在河流中。也許他們是他人利益的犧牲品,可大多數人的命運何嘗不是大同小異。 這樣說起來好像蜘蛛女之吻。
评分這本書可以說的東西其實太多瞭。和Ruth的那些談話,充滿包容和理解的友情乃至於在人際交往中所有的微妙與不言而喻。他們一直都很慢,於是隻能被動前行,溺死在河流中。也許他們是他人利益的犧牲品,可大多數人的命運何嘗不是大同小異。 這樣說起來好像蜘蛛女之吻。
评分我想給四星半。最後30頁眼淚劈裏啪啦地掉。沉澱一下再寫它
评分慕名來讀。一開始很虛幻,一頭霧水。越往後越清晰。Ishiguro似乎總是在一段的最後鋪墊齣下文,但好多重磅情節卻輕描淡寫地一筆帶過。哥特式的文風,值得思考的主題。
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