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Never Let Me Go

With GCSE and A Level study guide
By Kazuo Ishiguro
Series: Faber Educational Editions
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro follows the lives of students at a mysterious boarding school in the English countryside as they grow up and discover unsettling truths about their purpose and existence. The narrative unfolds through the lens of friendship, identity, and the ethics of science, painting a haunting picture of a society where humanity and morality are profoundly questioned.
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Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this volume is intended equally for those studying independently, with a personal tutor, or in class. It covers the context of the novel and its author; detailed examination of themes, characters and structure; a close look the novel in the author's own words, and more.

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In one of the most memorable novels of recent years, Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. Narrated by Kathy, now thirty-one, Never Let Me Go hauntingly dramatises her attempts to come to terms with her childhood at a seemingly idyllic school, Hailsham, and with the fate that has always awaited her and her closest friends in the wider world.

A story of love, friendship and memory, Never Let Me Go is charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of life.

Designed to meet the requirements for students at GCSE and A level, this accessible and stimulating new educational edition is intended equally for those studying independently, with a personal tutor, or in class. The guide covers:

  • the context of the novel and its author;
  • detailed examination of themes, characters and structure;
  • a close look at the novel in the author's own words, and at different critical receptions;
  • glossaries and test questions designed to prompt deeper thinking.

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Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780571335770

Publisher: Faber & Faber

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 20 April 2017

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Faber & Faber

Edition: Education Edition

Contributors:

  • Contributions by Geoff Barton

Audience: Primary and secondary education, Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 22.0mm

Width: 129.0mm

Height: 198.0mm

Weight: 304g

Pages: 368

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Children’s, Teenage and Educational Education & Reference Kazuo Ishiguro Non-Fiction Series: Faber Educational Editions

About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of six novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, Serono Literary Prize, Casino de Santiago European Novel Award, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize). Nocturnes (2009) was awarded the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa International Literary Prize. Kazuo Ishiguro's work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have also been adapted into major films. In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter. Geoff Barton has been described as Britain's best known English teacher. A columnist for the TES and a regular speaker on literacy, grammar and education, he is Headteacher of a large comprehensive school, where he still teaches English.

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