Never Let Me Go

Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (カズオ・イシグロ or 石黒 一雄), OBE, FRSA, FRSL is a British novelist of Japanese origin and Nobel Laureate in Literature (2017). His family moved to England in 1960. Ishiguro obtained his Bachelor's degree from the University of Kent in 1978 and his Master's from the University of East Anglia's creative writing course in 1980. He became a British citizen in 1982. He now lives in London.His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, won the 1982 Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, won the 1986 Whitbread Prize. Ishiguro received the 1989 Man Booker prize for his third novel The Remains of the Day. His fourth novel, The Unconsoled, won the 1995 Cheltenham Prize. His latest novel is The Buried Giant, a New York Times bestseller. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017.His novels An Artist of the Floating World (1986), When We Were Orphans (2000), and Never Let Me Go (2005) were all shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize.In 2008, The Times ranked Ishiguro 32nd on their list of "The 50 Greatest British Writers Since 1945". In 2017, the Swedish Academy awarded him the Nobel Prize in Literature, describing him in its citation as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world".

出版者:Vintage Books

作者:Kazuo Ishiguro

页数:282

出版时间:2010-8-31

价格:GBP 6.99

装帧:Paperback

isbn号码:9780571224142

图书标签:石黑一雄小说英文原版Kazuo_Ishiguro英国日本科幻英国文学

From the Booker Prize-winning author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, comes an unforgettable edge-of-your-seat mystery that is at once heartbreakingly tender and morally courageous about what it means to be human.

Hailsham seems like a pleasant English boarding school, far from the influences of the city. Its students are well tended and supported, trained in art and literature, and become just the sort of people the world wants them to be. But, curiously, they are taught nothing of the outside world and are allowed little contact with it.

Within the grounds of Hailsham, Kathy grows from schoolgirl to young woman, but it’s only when she and her friends Ruth and Tommy leave the safe grounds of the school (as they always knew they would) that they realize the full truth of what Hailsham is.

Never Let Me Go breaks through the boundaries of the literary novel. It is a gripping mystery, a beautiful love story, and also a scathing critique of human arrogance and a moral examination of how we treat the vulnerable and different in our society. In exploring the themes of memory and the impact of the past, Ishiguro takes on the idea of a possible future to create his most moving and powerful book to date.

读后感

第一次读到石黑一雄是他那本处女作《远山淡影》，他在小说里不厌其烦地描述一个日本女人的内心幻象，结局令人难以忘怀。今天早上花了两个小时读完了他的名作《别让我走》，村上春树曾经把这本书形容为“半个世纪以来读到的最好的小说”。 和川端康成一样，石黑一雄喜欢描述人...  

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用户评价

都那么喜欢剧和电影了，没想到还会更喜欢原作。不落言筌，最是伤人不见血…。另外感慨森下佳子这位“改编家”…变换视角的重塑力，让原作党也不得不佩服一二…将Kathy拆分成恭子和真实，极端隐忍与彻底顽抗，才得以完成两处高潮；坏处是性格缺陷太过赤裸，难免牵强；原著三人情感脉络就相当流畅。Why Hailsham at all？既然已有克隆人，又如何会有答案。

慕名来读。一开始很虚幻，一头雾水。越往后越清晰。Ishiguro似乎总是在一段的最后铺垫出下文，但好多重磅情节却轻描淡写地一笔带过。哥特式的文风，值得思考的主题。

我想给四星半。最后30页眼泪劈里啪啦地掉。沉淀一下再写它

慕名来读。一开始很虚幻，一头雾水。越往后越清晰。Ishiguro似乎总是在一段的最后铺垫出下文，但好多重磅情节却轻描淡写地一笔带过。哥特式的文风，值得思考的主题。

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