Non lasciarmi

di Kazuo Ishiguro

lingua Italian

Pubblicato il 23 Settembre 2007

ISBN:: 978-88-06-19045-3

(10 recensioni)

Never Let Me Go is a 2005 dystopian science fiction novel by British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Booker Prize (an award Ishiguro had previously won in 1989 for The Remains of the Day), for the 2006 Arthur C. Clarke Award and for the 2005 National Book Critics Circle Award. Time magazine named it the best novel of 2005 and included the novel in its "100 Best English-language novels published since 1923—the beginning of TIME". It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.

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Amber Herbert ha recensito Never Let Me Go di Kazuo Ishiguro

Another Novel That Fails to Live Up to the Hype

3 stelle

There are many glimmers of brilliance in this novel. The philosophical themes are prominent but obvious and lacking the depth needed to make an emotional impact. The characters are nuanced enough to tell them apart and give them personalities with which to fall in step beside, but I never once cared what happened to Kathy or Tommy or Ruth. The sci-fi elements are subdued, falling behind the themes of destiny and fulfillment. The prose is serviceable but nothing worth praising. Much like Klara and the Sun, I neither understand the hype nor believe it offers anything profound to speculative fiction as a whole. While not a terrible book, I stopped reading around the 50% mark.

Nathan John Cooper ha recensito Never Let Me Go di Kazuo Ishiguro

A Memory

4 stelle

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Apparently, when I finished this book, I never wrote a review... which is insane to think about but I'll try and write one now (despite it being around a year later). I loved this story. As a British teenager I have always loved the platonic and romantic dynamic that boarding schools encourage and, as such, thoroughly enjoyed how different relations played out throughout this tale. Furthermore, the addition of science-fiction elements allowed for the exemplification of narrative elements and enigmas ergo drawing the audience even further into the strange world of Hailsham. I will likely revisit this book many times throughout my life to feel what I felt whilst reading it for the first time; to walk the halls of Hailsham; to watch the football games on the field; to stare into the ambiguous forest across the accommodation windows.