Kazuo Ishiguro

Never Let Me Go is a 2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize and for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award. Time Magazine named it the best fiction novel of 2005 and included it in All-TIME 100 Greatest Novels. While it contains many tropes generally associated with science fiction, it was marketed as mainstream literature. The novel is narrated by Kathy H. She recalls her childhood at a strange boarding school, particularly her friendship with several other students. As the novel unfolds, the reader gradually sees how certain interconnected circumstances of her upbringing become fundamental to her adult life.