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Title: A fine, thought-provoking, and rather creepy novel.
Review: This book tackles an interesting subject -- medical science -- and you can read it as a cautionary tale, a novel describing a dystopia, much like Huxley's Brave New World, or Orwell's 1984. It's certainly observant and instructive on that level, and oddly entertaining.But what makes this a superb novel is the way Ishiguro uses his rather far-out plot to explore issues such as mortality, self-worth, capacity for intimacy, selflessness and so on. Issues that all human beings in the most ordinary of circumstances must face.It is on this level that I found the novel most intriguing.Finally, there are several key plot twists and surprises. I don't want to ruin that aspect of the novel for anybody. Allow me to say only that the narrative itself is mysterious and gripping.
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