Never Let Me Go

Kazuo Ishiguro 2005

Devastation Rating

Existential Dread
loss trauma dystopian literary fiction

Our Take

Ishiguro makes you complicit. You see it coming and still you cannot stop it. Three children who will never run — and somehow that quiet acceptance is more devastating than any rage. A novel about what we allow when we choose not to look too closely.

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