Never Let Me Go  (English, Paperback, Ishiguro Kazuo)

Having read all but one of Kazuo Ishiguro's works, it often strikes me as strange , that while "Remains of the Day" won a Booker, "Never Let me Go" did not. It was certainly a deserving candidate, and while the former is also a uniquely written book, the latter is gut wrenching in its finality and brings out what has so aptly been described as "the fragility of life". Read this book alone , possibly over a holiday- without people and the daily grind of life tugging to deviate your attentions....

Read such intense and deeply affecting book after a very long while. Its grasping - characters, narration, narrator's thoughts, plot etc. There is a universal nostalgic feeling every reader can relate to. The language is simple making the reader to soak in every word to feel the described emotion.

This edition has the most fascinating cover. The delivery was on time. The packaging and bookmarks were excellent. All in all satisfied with the service and product.

This is a story of three children: Kathy, Ruth and Tommy, who are students at a boarding school, named as Hailsham, situated in a secluded English countryside, where they are always reminded by the teachers there, about the privileges they enjoy by dint of being the students of Hailsham. We see the ways of life there, the teachers, a mysterious Madam and other idiosyncrasies of their life, with a healthy dose of other students and their lives. Now years later Kathy, now a young woman reminisc...