Never Let Me Go -

Kazuo Ishiguro

Vintage Books

2010

288 páginas

9h 36m

ISBN-13: 9781400078776

From the acclaimed author of The Remains of the Day and When We Were Orphans, a moving new novel that subtly reimagines our world and time in a haunting story of friendship and love.As a child, Kathy – now thirty-one years old – lived at Hailsham, a private school in the scenic English countryside where the children were sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe that they were special and that their well-being was crucial not only for themselves but for the society they would eventually enter. Kathy had long ago put this idyllic past behind her, but when two of her Hailsham friends come back into her life, she stops resisting the pull of memory.And so, as her friendship with Ruth is rekindled, and as the feelings that long ago fueled her adolescent crush on Tommy begin to deepen into love, Kathy recalls their years at Hailsham. She describes happy scenes of boys and girls growing up together, unperturbed – even comforted – by their isolation. But she describes other scenes as well: of discord and misunderstanding that hint at a dark secret behind Hailsham’s nurturing facade. With the dawning clarity of hindsight, the three friends are compelled to face the truth about their childhood–and about their lives now.A tale of deceptive simplicity, Never Let Me Go slowly reveals an extraordinary emotional depth and resonance – and takes its place among Kazuo Ishiguro’s finest work.

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4 (Muito bom)

"Memories, even your most precious ones, fade surprisingly quickly. But I don't go along with that. The memories I value most, I don't ever see them fading".

Esta é uma das minhas frases favoritas deste livro, pois ela me lembra de uma das frases mais tocantes da minha série favorita. Jason pergunta: "Você promete se lembrar só das coisas boas, e se esquecer de tudo aquilo que foi ruim?", e a Janet diz: "Impossível. Todas as coisas foram boas".

Gostei muito desta história. Eu adivinhei a grande revelação um pouco cedo, mas isso não atrapalhou minha leitura. Sempre que uma nova peça do quebra-cabeça surgia, eu me interessava mais pelo livro.

O que mais gostei com certeza foi a narrativa do Ishiguro, que vem e passa como uma conversa entre leitor e personagem. A única crítica que tenho é ao infodump que rolou no final. Apesar de querer saber de tudo, é claro, eu acho que poderia ter sido feito de forma mais natural. Mesmo assim, eu gostei muito da leitura - e do audiobook, pois eu metade li e metade ouvi o livro.