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Title: Haunting and lovely
Review: Kazuo Ishiguro portrays an exquisitely detailed and emotionally controlled alternate world which simmers with existential questions in the haunting, delicate, and horrific "Never Let Me Go." While the book imagines a world where cancer has been cured at a terrible price, I have read that the most basic question raised by this novel is this: In what ways are the lives we are living constrained by our inability to imagine something else? Ishiguro's characters, who we meet as children at boarding school, are by turns loving, capricious, fair-minded, shallow... in other words, they are just kids, struggling to discover who they are. Their humanity only enhances the nagging feeling that this placid world Ishiguro has created was born out of something deeply unholy. Is this a cautionary tale? I'm not certain. Whatever it is, it is a lovely piece of very literate pseudo-science fiction that leaves one troubled for days.
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