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| Author | Kazuo Ishiguro |
|---|---|
| Cover artist | Aaron Wilner |
| Language | English |
| Genre | Science fiction, speculative fiction |
| Publisher | Faber and Faber |
Publication date | 2005 |
| Publication place | United Kingdom |
| Media type | Print (hardback & paperback) |
| Pages | 288 |
| ISBN | 1-4000-4339-5 (first edition, hardback) |
| OCLC | 56058300 |
| 823/.914 22 | |
| LC Class | PR6059.S5 N48 2005 |
| Preceded by | When We Were Orphans |
| Followed by | Nocturnes |
Never Let Me Go is a 2005 science fiction novel by the British author Kazuo Ishiguro. It was shortlisted for the 2005 Man 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".[1] It also received an ALA Alex Award in 2006, and the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. A film adaptation directed by Mark Romanek was released in 2010; a Japanese television drama aired in 2016.[2]
- ^ Grossman, Lev (8 January 2010). "All-Time 100 Novels". Time. Retrieved 13 January 2020.
- ^ "Never Let Me Go (Programme Site)". Never Let Me Go (Programme Site). TBS.co.jp. Retrieved 29 January 2016.