Never Let Me Go

Details

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Name

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Author

Kazuo Ishiguro

Year

2005

Category

Speculative fiction

Vibe

Boarding school melancholy with a quiet existential scream underneath

My take

Looks gentle, reads gentle, ruins you on page 200-something; the way Ishiguro withholds and then doesn’t quite say the thing out loud is exactly why I keep going back to it.