Never Let Me Go

石黑一雄，日裔英国小说家，1954年生于日本长崎，与奈保尔、拉什迪并称为“英国文坛移民三雄”。石黑一雄的作品并不多，但几乎每部作品都获得重要的文学奖项：《远山淡影》获温尼弗雷德·霍尔比纪念奖，《浮世画家》获惠特布莱德年度最佳小说奖，《长日将尽》获布克奖，《无可慰藉》获切尔特纳姆文学艺术奖，《浮世画家》《我辈孤雏》和《莫失莫忘》均入围布克奖决选名单；1995年英女王授予石黑一雄文学领域的大英帝国勋章，1998年获法国文学艺术骑士勋章，2017年因“以其巨大的情感力量，发掘了隐藏在我们与世界的虚幻联系之下的深渊”而获诺贝尔文学奖。

出版者:Knopf

作者:Kazuo Ishiguro

页数:304

出版时间:2005-04-05

价格:USD 25.00

装帧:Hardcover

isbn号码:9781400043392

图书标签:石黑一雄小说英国科幻外国文学Kazuo_IshiguroEnglishKazuoIshiguro

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.

As a child, Kathy–now thirty-one years old–lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.

And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed–even comforted–by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.

A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance–and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

读后感

文/赵客 1996年7月5日，人类历史上的第一只克隆动物——绵羊多莉诞生了，这只由乳腺细胞发育而来的小羊引起了全世界的瞩目，也引发了克隆人的幻想，一时间争议不断。绵羊的平均寿命在12年左右，然而多莉仅仅活了6年，就于2003年去世。科学家们找不到多莉早夭的原因，猜想细胞或...

石黑一雄确实是一个英国作家，这一点在字里行间我感受到他没有具备其余日本作家的什么共性。硬要说有的话，这是一部悲伤的书，和大多日本小说的基调相似。看到很多人在评论这部书的逻辑，我觉得有些搞笑。这本书的定位应该就是“科幻小说”，就像你去抗议《哈利波特》的逻辑漏...  

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 ...  

很多人大概会觉得跟克隆人有关的一定是科幻小说。 我并不认为这本书可以划入普遍意义上的科幻小说里。 虽然这本书是以未来为背景，但他所描写的日常生活细节与我们并无二样，充满了真实感，而且细腻的感情描写引人入胜。就像是不久以后，就像是几十年以后会发生的事情一样。 小...  

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前阵子又看了一遍电影，那种绝望重新弥漫上来，又翻开书看了一遍。电影下面好多抗议说他们长大后为什么不逃，这是正常世界长大的人的视角和发问，却不是Hailsham长大的孩子要处理的问题。Hailsham的存在就是要处理潜移默化和接受命运的问题（对我来说又是乌托邦的吊诡形式）。它的视角选取非常聪明，始终限定在Kathy的视线里，跟着孩子的视角一起，在平淡的语气里开始了这段旅程，待到慢慢反应过来，一下子心惊。My name is Kathy H. I’m thirty-one years old, and I’ve been a carer now for over eleven years. 这本书开头的口吻如此淡然，却已是文学史上不能磨灭的声音。这本书我也慢热，是在年月里一点一点碾碎了我的心。

人生理想是做一个Kathy一样的人

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