Never Let Me Go - Bouquins

288 pages

Langue : English

Publié 2010

ISBN :: 978-1-4000-7877-6
Goodreads:: 6334

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.

14 éditions

PiiaB@kirja.casa a publié une critique de Ole luonani aina par Kazuo Ishiguro

Liian hienovaraista vihjailua

3 étoiles

Sisäoppilaitoksen lapset kasvavat oudossa dystopiassa, jonka salaisuudet ja lainalaisuudet selvenevät vain osittain. Sujuvaa kerrontaa, jota on mukava lukea, mutta jatkuva käänteen odottaminen menee vähän liian pitkälle.

Kirja koostuu kolmesta osasta, jotka voisi tiivistää teemoihin 1. lapset ovat mulkkuja, 2. teinit ja aikuiset ovat mulkkuja ja 3. kaikki ovat mulkkuja. Tosin kirja hienovaraisesti kiertää tätä aihetta eikä juuri perustele, miten ja miksi tällainen yhteiskunta syntyi vaan tyytyy kertomaan näiden muutaman altavastaavan tarinan.

Jäin kaipaamaan enemmän kuvausta tuosta erikoisesta maailmasta ja jotain selitystä... kaikelle?

Nathan John Cooper a publié une critique de Never Let Me Go par Kazuo Ishiguro

A Memory

4 étoiles

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Apparently, when I finished this book, I never wrote a review... which is insane to think about but I'll try and write one now (despite it being around a year later). I loved this story. As a British teenager I have always loved the platonic and romantic dynamic that boarding schools encourage and, as such, thoroughly enjoyed how different relations played out throughout this tale. Furthermore, the addition of science-fiction elements allowed for the exemplification of narrative elements and enigmas ergo drawing the audience even further into the strange world of Hailsham. I will likely revisit this book many times throughout my life to feel what I felt whilst reading it for the first time; to walk the halls of Hailsham; to watch the football games on the field; to stare into the ambiguous forest across the accommodation windows.