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Fiction · 2005 · PG-13

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

Children raised in a mysterious English school discover their true purpose — and learn to accept it.

NOBEL PRIZE WINNER • From the acclaimed, bestselling author of The Remains of the Day comes “a Gothic tour de force" (The New York Times) with an extraordinary twist—a moving, suspenseful, beautifully atmospheric modern classic. One of The New York Times’s 10 Best Books of the 21st Century • A Kirkus Reviews Best Fiction Book of the Century • A Los Angeles Times Best Fiction Book of the Last 30 Years 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 teac

For14+GenreFictionLength288 pagesRead time~8 hours

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Violence

None

No violence

Language

None

No profanity

Sexual Content

Some

Sexual relationships explored by the characters

Substance Use

None

No substance use

Emotional Intensity

A lot

Extreme psychological despair; predetermination; the horror of compliant resignation

What this book is about

Ishiguro's 2005 Booker-shortlisted novel reveals, gradually, that its three protagonists are clones raised to donate their organs. Features sexual content (the characters explore relationships), and the psychological despair of predetermined fate. For mature teens and adults.

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Sexual content

Profound psychological despair about fate and death

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