A Study Guide for Kazuo Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go
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Never Let Me Go
Kazuo Ishiguro
2005
Introduction
Never Let Me Go is the sixth novel by renowned British writer Kazuo Ishiguro. Published in 2005, it was short-listed for the Booker Prize. Ostensibly set in England from the 1970s to the late 1990s, Never Let Me Go is a futuristic, dystopian (anti-utopian) tale about human cloning. At a secluded private school in the English countryside, young people who have been created through cloning are educated. Their lives will be short, since as soon as they become adults they will be required to donate their vital organs, one by one, to those who need them to recover from disease. The novel focuses on the lives of three of these clones: Kathy, who narrates the story; Ruth; and Tommy. The author examines how they grow up, the relationships they form, and the values by which they learn to live.
Ishiguro started writing Never Let Me Go in 1990. In its early stages, the novel was not about cloning. Instead, the characters were doomed because they had been contaminated by some kind of nuclear material. Not satisfied with his material, Ishiguro abandoned the story twice to write The Unconsoled and When We Were Orphans before finally finishing Never Let Me Go. Cloning was much in the news at the time, and this supplied him with his theme.
The novel has been acclaimed for Ishiguro's subtle handling of a nightmarish theme. It has also been praised as a moving meditation on how people create meaning in life in the face of loss and mortality.
Author Biography
Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, on November 8, 1954. The family, including Ishiguro's two sisters, moved to Britain in 1960, when Ishiguro's father, Shigeo Ishiguro, an oceanographer, was employed as a researcher at the National Institute of Oceanography. Living in Guildford, Surrey, Ishiguro attended a grammar school in Woking, Surrey. In 1973, he worked as a grouse beater (flushing out birds for hunting) for the Queen Mother at Balmoral Castle, Aberdeen, Scotland. The following year he enrolled at the University of Kent at Canterbury, graduating with degrees in English and philosophy in 1978. From 1979 to 1980, he was a residential social worker in London, assisting homeless people. Ishiguro had been writing fiction since the mid-1970s, and he enrolled in a graduate creative writing program at the University of East Anglia, where he was taught by noted writers Malcolm Bradbury and Angela Carter. He completed his master of arts degree in 1980, and in 1981, three of his short stories were published in Introductions 7: Stories by New Writers.
Ishiguro moved to London, and his first novel, A Pale View of the Hills, was published in 1982. It received excellent reviews and was awarded the Winifred Holtby Memorial Prize. Encouraged by this success, Ishiguro decided in 1982 to pursue a full-time writing career. He also became a British citizen in