Never let me go
The protagonists of this book are connected by the Hailsham school. However, this is no ordinary school. It is a school for education of children destined for donations of organs. Kathy H., a thirty-one-year-old caregiver, who spent her childhood in Hailsham, tells the story of her life. About hopes, love, everyday things, fears, friendship… Along the way, she is accompanied by friends from Hailsham, Ruth and Tommy. After finishing school, they are eager to explore the world. But their dreams of freedom soon disappear when faced with the fact that they are merely clones grown for the purpose of organ donation.
Kazuo Ishiguro wrote a wonderful story of love, loss and hidden truths. In it, he posed a key question - what makes us human?
Director Mark Romanek and screenwriter Alex Garland in the film "Never let me go" made a film adaptation of the unforgettable Ishiguro's bitter but emotional story.
"Then she fell silent, but I had the impression that she kept talking in her head, because her gaze kept circling around us, face to face, just as if she is still talking to us."
Kazuo Ishiguro November 8, 1954, British writer of Japanese descent, winner of the Nobel Prize for Literature, Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize, Whitbread Prize for Book of the Year, for "Floating World Artist", Booker Prize for the novel "At the End of the Day" and Chevalier de l 'Order of Arts and Letters.
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