![]() 15 years before he published Never Let Me Go. I said, ‘Maybe I’ll write this book about cloning.’” After that fateful meal, Ishiguro dropped his lounge singers concept and pursued the more sci-fi idea instead. I didn’t want to tell him what I was writing, because I don’t like to do that,” Ishiguro said. ![]() The characters were living in 1950s America and pursuing careers on Broadway as Ishiguro told Poets & Writers, “The book would both be about that world and resemble its songs.” Things changed when the author had a friend come over for dinner: “He asked me what I was writing. Never Let Me Go was originally about lounge singers. “The people in the novel believe, irrationally, like we all believe, that love can do all kinds of things that make you exempt from your fate.” Here’s what you need to know about Never Let Me Go, as seen in Mental Floss's book The Curious Reader. ![]() ![]() ![]() “Unless you have a real sense of precious things under threat there would be nothing sad about time being limited,” the author has said about the book. The Guardian named Kazuo Ishiguro’s sixth novel, Never Let Me Go-a subtle, heartbreaking sci-fi tale about clones whose lives are barreling toward a sad and mysterious end-one of its 100 best books of the 21st century. ![]()
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