So, yesterday was the official kick-off of the Keep Portland Weird festival here in Paris, which meant that I had a reading/screening in the...
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Brilliantly understated and evocative from first page to last, this novel is so strange yet so familiar. When I happen upon some mention of it, or when I remember a scene from it, I often get goosebumps. This masterpiece of social science fiction is an alternative history "about" cloning, but it contains many themes, from the experience of growing up to a meditation on the nature of the human soul. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking, haunting book.
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Never Let Me Go by Kazuo Ishiguro
Steverino, January 7, 2010
Brilliantly understated and evocative from first page to last, this novel is so strange yet so familiar. When I happen upon some mention of it, or when I remember a scene from it, I often get goosebumps. This masterpiece of social science fiction is an alternative history "about" cloning, but it contains many themes, from the experience of growing up to a meditation on the nature of the human soul. This is a beautiful, heartbreaking, haunting book.(1 of 1 readers found this comment helpful)