Schema Magazine

Kazuo Ishiguro : Never Let me Go - coming to theatres.

While I was in Italy this summer, I stumbled upon \"Never Let me Go\" in the bookcase of the room I was staying in. It had the 'buy two, get one free' sticker stamped across its cover and had been purchased at Waterstone's - a chain bookstore in the UK and Europe.\n\nSince there are few things to do on a 16 hour flight and a night at the airport in Istanbul, I brought the book along with me and delved into it as the clock ticked further and further into the night. \n\n\"Never Let me Go\" by Kazuo Ishiguro is a sublime insight into the a dystopian world of humans who are extremely scientifically and technologically advanced. It makes a commentary on the foundation and stability of our morals as well as the ethics of science. Set in post World War II, the characters of this book live in a society that seems very familiar to us, but is strikingly not quite like anything we know.\n\nBy then, cancer has been cured, transplants are abundant and disease is a foreign concept to humankind. The solution was clones - babies raised to become adults who would reach two phases in their lives. The first would be the carer stage - where they care for the donors who are giving their kidneys and other organs to their 'match' out in the real world. The book illustrates the lives of three students - Ruth, Tommy and Kathy - as they grow up at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic English boarding school. The purpose of their upbringing and existence is to be donors for a match when they grow older.\n\n\n\nIshiguro's skill at weaving a tapestry of storyteling makes a thought-provoking read about characters in unusual circumstances. The movie will feature internationally acclaimed actresses Kiera Knightley and Carrie Mulligan.\n\nThe novel has been named by Time's Magazine as the \"Best novel of the decade.\" Read it - and see it in theatres!