Never Let Me Go

One of the things most characteristic of Ishiguro's writing style is its simple elegance. Quickly establishing a firm sense of place, every character in the novel forms a deep attachment with the reader. In the novel you discover that each of the children, who are introduced as “orphans” living together in a boarding house, are actually clones of real humans, created as a way to harvest organs. Though Ishiguro's careful craftsmanship shines through, as by withholding knowledge from us until the very end and creating a light blanket covering its darkest themes, the novel can be read in two very different ways. It begins light and innocent and before you realise it yourself, you are suddenly in a science fiction, dystopian world which deserves a genre of its own for being so incredibly unique in its ability to turn the complete ordinary into unusual and aberrant. To date, it is probably the most imaginative and exciting novel which I have read and I wouldn't hesitate in being sucked into its pages sometime very soon. The only reason I leave half a star off the grand total is so a comparison can be allowed between his other, perhaps more celebrated, novels such as Remains of the Day.