#48 in Dystopian
Never Let Me Go
- 320
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- Film 2010 +1
- On screen
- Corine Literature Prize
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Editor’s note Kathy H. is thirty-one and has been a carer for eleven years, and she tells the story of Hailsham, the boarding school in the English countryside where she grew up with Ruth and Tommy, in the voice of someone remembering school days; it takes a while to understand what the students are, what the donations are and why nobody ever runs. Kazuo Ishiguro published it in 2005, it was shortlisted for the Booker, and it is the book most often named when he won the Nobel in 2017. The film of 2010, with Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley and Andrew Garfield, is faithful and no substitute. In German it is Alles, was wir geben mussten. Not science fiction in any way that matters; a novel about accepting a short life.
About the book
Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005. It included the novel in its '100 Best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME'. It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010.
On screen
This book has been adapted for the screen 2 times — from 2010 to 2016.
Adaptation data: Wikidata · On screen →
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.7 across 2,013 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 93% of the weight and the score stays at 7.7 — the Dystopian average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 74 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.7 | 1.9K | 96% |
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It has 320 pages — shorter than 76% of the ranked books in Dystopian.
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