Descrizione
- clearly introduces the context of the novel and its author;
- examines in detail its themes, characters and structure;
- looks at the novel in the author's own words, and at different critical receptions;
- provides glossaries and test questions to prompt deeper thinking.
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.
Dettagli del libro
Generi
Recensioni
Visualizza tutto
70% isi buku ini cuma nostalgia kenangan masa lalu pas masih kecil di asrama sekolah. Mana kualitas terjemahannya juga kaku. Lengkap sudah kebosanan pas baca.
Premisnya tentang persahabatan Kathy, Tommy, dan Ruth. Disini kita diajak menyelami cerita dengan sudut pandang Kathy. Mereka yg ada di asrama Hailsham adalah anak² istimewa, yg dari lahir takdirnya sudah ditentukan. Nah takdir seperti apa yg dimaksud? Dan kenapa hidup mereka tidak bisa seperti manusia lain pada umumnya? Itulah yg menjadi misteri, dan akan terjawab (dengan tidak memuaskan) di akhir cerita.
Dari awal sampe pertengahan buku ini gak ada yg bisa dinikmati. Baru setelah itu ada hal yg menarik dikit, tapi abis itu balik bosen lagi. Sebenernya tema yg dibawakan bagus, tapi entah kenapa eksekusinya seperti ini.
SpoilerI'd already seen the film, so knew this would be a deep and heartaching read. This is honestly one of my favourite reads now, the friendships are loving, flawed - the usual envy and adoration so well written. The characters are complex and interesting. The topic is unnerving, it's so matter of fact and horrific, and you wonder how people justify it but they simply do, getting on with their lives.
It was like watching "The Island" from the periphery, if it was set 30 years earlier and you couldn't really see what's going on.