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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro7/1/2023 ![]() ![]() Occasionally, this approach can be oblique to the point of frustration. ![]() “I tend to write the same book over and over,” Ishiguro told the Guardian in 2015, “or at least, I take the same subject I took last time out and refine it, or do a slightly different take on it.” They tend to revolve around a single traumatic idea that the narrator is not entirely capable of confronting head-on - that the narrator of Never Let Me Go is a clone who will eventually donate all of her vital organs to someone else that the butler narrator of The Remains of the Day has spent his life tending to a Nazi - and which the book describes in anxious, claustrophobic circles until the reader fully understands it. Ishiguro’s novels are mostly first-person, and mostly told by an unreliable narrator. ![]() In a statement, the Swedish Academy wrote that Ishiguro, “in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.” ![]() Kazuo Ishiguro, the English novelist who wrote Never Let Me Go and The R emains of the Day, has won the 2017 Nobel Prize for literature. ![]()
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