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Never Let Me Go
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Key facts
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Cover artist
- Aaron Wilner
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Science fiction , speculative fiction
- Publisher
- Faber and Faber
- Publication place
- United Kingdom
- Media type
- Isbn
- 1-4000-4339-5 (first edition, hardback)
- Dewey decimal
- 823/.914 22
- Library of congress classification span
- PR6059.S5 N48 2005
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Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- literary work
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- Genre
- alternate history
- Country of origin
- United Kingdom
- Publisher
- Faber & Faber
- Followed by
- Nocturnes
- Follows
- When We Were Orphans
- Main subject
- friendship
- Narrative location
- Sussex
- Official website
- www.hayakawa-online.co.jp/product/books/310051.html
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- title
- Să nu mă părăsești
- language of work or name
- English language
- derivative work
- Never Let Me Go
- place of publication
- United Kingdom
- start time
- 2016-01-15
- social media followers
- 12663
- inception
- 2005-00-00
- form of creative work
- novel
- publication date
- 2005-04-00
- number of episodes
- 10
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Encyclopedic overview
Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man Booker Prize, for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005. It included the novel in its '100 Best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME'. It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010.
The novel, Ishiguro's sixth, is set in an alternative England of the 1990s and follows students' lives at an elite boarding school. It explores themes of friendship, memory, and what it means to be human.
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