Never Let Me Go by Kazuo IshiguroMy rating: 4 of 5 stars
Well, now at last I begin to understand why this author was awarded a Nobel.
The story's narrator is a young woman reminiscing about her school days. This is no ordinary school though, as the reader finds out page by page. You get the feeling that the story is somehow a science fiction, but the fact is never quite out there. It turns out to be a love triangle as well, while being deeply psychological.
While reading, one is also reminded time and again of the irony of retrospection. How things in the past seem different when you turn back from the present. How perspective changes with the passage of time and the advantage of knowledge.
To mess with the reader's head, the author does not deliberately reveal the narrator's background, but forces us to see her as a regular person.
Worth a read for the serious reader.
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