Never Let Me Go (novel)

Anything Never Let Me Go is the German title of the novel Never Let Me Go Kazuo Ishiguro author of the British in the year 2005. It is the story of a young woman. She tells about her life in a school that practically serves as an organ reservoir. All the students there are clones that were brought into the world to donate vital organs later. Students are only gradually with the terrible truths that predetermine their life, face, always at an age where they can not really understand what it means.

The book was in 2005 for the highest British Book Award, the Booker Prize nominated. It also received nominations for the Arthur C. Clarke Award (2006) and the National Book Critics Circle Award ( 2005). Time chose it the best novel of the year in 2005 and took it in his list of the hundred best English-language novels from 1923 to 2005 on. 2010, the novel was made ​​into a film directed by Mark Romanek and Carey Mulligan, Andrew Garfield and Keira Knightley in the lead roles.

Content

The story begins in Hailsham, a boarding school, and is narrated by Kathy H., who once lived through their memories. Hailsham is located in South Easex (England), in a beautiful countryside and is cut off from the outside world. Kathy, Ruth and her best friends Tommy and her classmates grow up in Hailsham and seem to have a sheltered childhood. You go into a seemingly normal school, but hot with them not teachers teaching ends, but overseers, and early on they are told that they are special, unlike the people are " out there". All Hailsham -Kolleg have a provision: Your existence is solely for the purpose of can be taken until the death of organs so that others who have been commissioned to go on living.

In Hailsham painting and drawing is a central task of the students. They should paint a lot and be creative. Three to four times a year does a woman, simply known as Madame, and takes the most beautiful work with. This will come in the so-called gallery.

But Tommy is not creative and has no talent for art, so he is teased by his classmates. Tommy sorry Kathy, and she wants to help him. This sums up Tommy trust to Kathy and they become friends. Another friend of Kathy 's Ruth. Although Ruth is the natural leader, boasting and fibs, has a lot of power and sometimes Kathy exploits, they are best friends. And although Tommy confided his secret fears and desires Kathy, he enters into a love affair with Ruth.

The PhD students are left on their origin, destination and future in the dark. You will be very little to say, but ask no questions and the students go to the topic out of the way.

At the age of 16 years, the fellows will have to leave Hailsham and come in cottages, where they live together with clones from other boarding. There is no overseer, so they are on their own and be able to live there until they begin training as a supervisor or to the donor. If they are caregivers, they serve a wide variety of donors after their donations until they get eventually sometime even a " decision " about their first donation.

In the cottages, the rumor comes to that love couples from Hailsham can get a deferral of three years, so they still have a little time for themselves before they start with the donations, if they can prove that they really love each other. Tommy hopes for this possibility and his own response kicks it. He thinks this is the gallery there. The pictures that are taken over the years in Hailsham of Madame, she could then recognize that you really love yourself. Because of Tommy never an image was read out for the gallery, he starts to draw, then with Kathy to get later a reprieve, which, however, never comes about.

After an argument with Ruth, the it starts because Tommy, Kathy leaves the cottages and begins her training as a caregiver. While Kathy stand by as a caregiver to another donor, she meets in the " hospital " to Ruth. Ruth has donated twice and is in bad shape. She is very excited about the reunion and would like to visit with Kathy Tommy, who is also now donors. Ruth apologizes for everything she can get in her imperfect personality to debt: that she had Kathy lied that they have tried to Tommy and Kathy kept away from each other, although they would still belong together from the beginning, and that they have all the wants to make amends. She gives Tommy the address of the woman with the gallery, Madame, who had been making so difficult to find, and asks Tommy and Kathy to go there to get a deferment for one another.

In this third donation dies or " completed " Ruth, Kathy and Tommy's carer is and girlfriend.

Tommy and Kathy decide to visit Madame, to ask for a postponement. But the woman told them at their meeting that there had never been such a delay that it was all just a rumor. The gallery was born solely for the purpose to show people that clones have a soul and feelings and is virtually impossible to distinguish from the naturally born human.

Madame wanted the population that displaces the existence of clones and rather believes that the institutions' approach would grow in a vacuum, " convince them that even clones have a soul and that it was not responsible for them in human terms, to use them for organ recovery. Hailsham give the clones at least the opportunity to grow up in a cultured and humane environment and grant them at least for a few years a dignified life. In addition, Madame Kathy and Tommy confirmed that their " movement " is bankrupt, and Hailsham closed for years.

Shortly after Tommy dies after his fourth donation, and Kathy begins after 12 years of existence as a caregiver to donate to.

Output

• Kazuo Ishiguro: All we had to give. Blessing, Munich 2005, ISBN 3-89667-233-9.