Never Let Me Go
Seiten
2006
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Open Market - Airside ed
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-22414-2 (ISBN)
Faber & Faber (Verlag)
978-0-571-22414-2 (ISBN)
Narrated by Kathy, now 31, this book hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, it is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD**
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
'Brilliantly executed.'
MARGARET ATWOOD
'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'
TIME
'Masterly.'
SUNDAY TIMES
One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
'Exquisite.'
GUARDIAN
'A feat of imaginative sympathy.'
NEW YORK TIMES
What readers are saying:
'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.'
'I loved it, every single word of it.'
'It took me wholly by surprise.'
'Utterly beautiful.'
'Essentially perfect.'
**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD**
SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
'Brilliantly executed.'
MARGARET ATWOOD
'A page-turner and a heartbreaker.'
TIME
'Masterly.'
SUNDAY TIMES
One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at the seemingly idyllic Hailsham School and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world. A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
'Exquisite.'
GUARDIAN
'A feat of imaginative sympathy.'
NEW YORK TIMES
What readers are saying:
'A book I will return to again and again, and one that keeps me thinking even after finishing it.'
'I loved it, every single word of it.'
'It took me wholly by surprise.'
'Utterly beautiful.'
'Essentially perfect.'
Kazuo Ishiguro's seven published books have won him wide renown and many honours around the world. His work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have each sold in excess of 1,000,000 copies in Faber editions alone, and both were adapted into highly acclaimed films. His latest novel is The Buried Giant.
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 5.1.2006 |
|---|---|
| Verlagsort | London |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 111 x 178 mm |
| Gewicht | 171 g |
| Themenwelt | Literatur ► Romane / Erzählungen |
| Literatur ► Zweisprachige Ausgaben ► Deutsch / Englisch | |
| ISBN-10 | 0-571-22414-8 / 0571224148 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0-571-22414-2 / 9780571224142 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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