Never Let Me Go (Signed First)

Ishiguro, Kazuo

ISBN 10: 0571224113 / ISBN 13: 9780571224111

Published by Faber and Faber, 2005

About this Item

First edition, first impression, signed and inscribed to the title page by Kazuo Ishiguro; the true first trade issue, not the numbered 'signed limited edition'. A lovely, Near Fine+ copy: tight and square binding in clean green boards; Fine but for a gentle bump to the tip of the bottom corner and a dozen very tiny (barely perceptible) spots to the top-edge of the page block; else excellent - bright, crisp and clean, presenting as unopened. The unclipped dustwrapper is Fine: delightfully crisp and vibrant; minor wrinkle to the tip of the bottom lower corner; presented in a removable, archival-quality Brodart protective cover. All orders are sent very carefully wrapped in bubble wrap and sturdy cardboard.

Seller Inventory # M389

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Never Let Me Go (Signed First)
• Publisher: Faber and Faber
• Publication Date: 2005
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571224113
• ISBN 13: 9780571224111
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Selected Signed

About this title

Synopsis

Kazuo Ishiguro has been acclaimed in the Sunday Times for 'extending the possibilities of fiction'. In Never Let Me Go he has fashioned another remarkable story - a story of love, loss and hidden truths - that takes its place among his finest work.

Kathy, Ruth and Tommy were pupils at Hailsham - an idyllic establishment situated deep in the English countryside. The children there were tenderly sheltered from the outside world, brought up to believe they were special, and that their personal welfare was crucial. But for what reason were they really there?

It is only years later that Kathy, now aged thirty-one, finally allows herself to yield to the pull of memory. What unfolds is the haunting story of how Kathy, Ruth and Tommy slowly come to face the truth about their seemingly happy childhoods - and about their futures.

Never Let Me Go is a uniquely moving novel, charged throughout with a sense of the fragility of our lives.

About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and came to Britain at the age of five. He is the author of six novels: A Pale View of Hills (1982, Winifred Holtby Prize), An Artist of the Floating World (1986, Whitbread Book of the Year Award, Premio Scanno, shortlisted for the Booker Prize), The Remains of the Day (1989, winner of the Booker Prize), The Unconsoled (1995, winner of the Cheltenham Prize), When We Were Orphans (2000, shortlisted for the Booker Prize) and Never Let Me Go (2005, Corine Internationaler Buchpreis, Serono Literary Prize, Casino de Santiago European Novel Award, shortlisted for the Man Booker Prize). Nocturnes (2009) was awarded the Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa International Literary Prize. Kazuo Ishiguro's work has been translated into over forty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go have also been adapted into major films. In 1995 Ishiguro received an OBE for Services to Literature, and in 1998 the French decoration of Chevalier de L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. He lives in London with his wife and daughter.