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Nominee · The Booker Prize 2005

Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

2005 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro

Ishiguro explores what it means to have a soul and how art distinguishes man from other life forms. But above all, Never Let Me Go is a study of friendship and the bonds we form which make or break while we come of age.

Synopsis from Open Library.

Language
English
Genre
alternate history
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