Ishiguro is always lovely, and his narrators are given the courtesy of an individual voice. That of Kathy H. is a resigned, peaceful one with undercurrents of passion and loss. Sometimes too peaceful and resigned, perhaps. The narrative is structured as a series of memories, told and explained for the benefit of a reader who is not of our society/time, but that of Kathy's. As such, it functions as a vindication of her soul, her individuality. It sets out the price being paid for it. Subtly.
I loved how peaceful he made it all seem. It's a terrible, ugly sort of situation they're in but through her memories he made it seem rosy and cosy and completely all-encompassing. It was a wonderful way to conceal the horrific background to it, to make it all that much worse. I spent most of the book wondering why no one was fighting it, but the book wasn't about that at all.
And yes. Quoted paragraph is spot on.
Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
- 04/04/2011 09:36:13 PM
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I was very impressed with it
- 05/04/2011 02:17:10 PM
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I've got this on my Kindle but haven't gotten round to reading it yet.
- 05/04/2011 04:21:39 PM
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Well, at least on a Kindle you do not get the boring cover to put you off. *NM*
- 05/04/2011 06:15:57 PM
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That book is one I think about more than any I have read in a long while.
- 05/04/2011 11:01:58 PM
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I am very pleased you liked this.
- 06/04/2011 11:22:40 PM
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Another thing (on my hesitating)
- 07/04/2011 10:08:21 AM
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You really should've known Ishiguro is worth more than that, though. 
- 07/04/2011 08:02:10 PM
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- 07/04/2011 08:02:10 PM
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I should have. And in the end I did. That is why I picked it up.
- 07/04/2011 08:14:16 PM
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thinks of puns based on the title
- 24/04/2011 11:26:48 PM
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