Every work by Kazuo Ishiguro is an event in world literature. His novels have been translated into more than forty languages. The print runs of “The Remains of the Day” and “Never Let Me Go” have exceeded one million copies.
“Never Let Me Go” is an unusual, spellbinding novel.
The author takes us to medieval England, when the Britons were at war with the Saxons, and the land was shrouded in a mist that made people forget the hour they had just lived through as quickly as the morning they had lived many years ago.
An elderly couple, Axel and Beatrice, leave their village and set off on a journey full of dangers. They want to find the son they haven’t seen for many years.
Ishiguro tells a story about memory and forgetting, about revenge and war, about love and forgiveness.
But most of all, it’s about people—about how, in the end, we are all lonely.