'The problem for the reviewer, appropriately enough, is that by revealing more of what the book is about he risks going too far and unravelling its meticulously woven fabric of hints and guesses.He does so with devastating effect' - Andrew Barrow, The Independent In this deceptively sad novel, he simply uses a science-fiction framework to throw light on ordinary human life, the human soul, human sexuality, love, creativity and childhood innocence. Accuracy of social observation, dialogue and even characterisation is not his aim. It's about why we don't explode, why we don't just wake up one day and go sobbing and crying down the street, kicking everything to pieces out of the raw, infuriating, completely personal sense of our lives never having been what they could have been.' - M.John Harrison, The Guardian 'This extraordinary and, in the end, rather frighteningly clever novel isn't about cloning, or being a clone, at all.(.) Thought-provoking stuff, certainly, but ultimately the style outweighs the substance.' - The Economist (.) The most frustrating aspect of the novel, however, is the paradox of Hailsham's students being so expensively educated and taught to think for themselves, yet so fully accepting of their fate. 'Mr Ishiguro (.) writes such taut, emotionless sentences this time that they feel almost contrived the language adds much to the book's sense of unreality, but also makes it hard to care much about the characters.No consensus, though many are impressed (and even more: confused) by how he goes about it Never Let Me Go was made into a film in 2010, directed by Mark Romanek and starring Carey Mulligan, Keira Knightley, and Charlotte RamplingĪ- : well-written, if not entirely convincing.General information | review summaries | our review | links | about the authorĪlles, was wir geben mussten - Deutschland

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