ISHIGURO, KAZUO
In one of the most acclaimed and strange novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewered version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now 31, Never Let Me Go 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, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.
Kazuo Ishiguro (Nagasaki, Xapón, 8 de novembro de 1954) naceu no Xapón pero con apenas seis anos trasladouse a Londres onde segue a vivir na actualidade. As súas novelas caracterízanse por unha psicoloxía da angustia e o recordo do pasado, con escasos personaxes e un fío argumental débil, moi ao modo oriental. Tras publicar varios relatos e artigos en revistas, publicou a súa primeira novela en 1982, A Pale View of the Hills, pola que gañou o premio Winifred Holtby. A seguinte novela, An Artist of the Floating World (1986), valeulle o premio Whitbread de Literatura. The Remains of the Day (1989), levada ao cine por James Ivory, consagrouno definitivamente e por ela recibiu o Booker Prize 1989.