![]() ![]() ![]() Instead she’s focused on personal relationships: with her “best friend”, the bossy Ruth, and the boy she loves, the amiable Tommy. Kathy H says nothing about the unfairness of her fate. Any objections once raised have now been overcome, and the situation is taken for granted – as slavery was once – by beneficiaries and victims alike. This enterprise is wrapped in euphemism: the outer world is greedy for the benefits, but doesn’t wish to acknowledge the cruelty. Once grown, they’ll serve as “carers” to those already being harvested then they’ll be harvested themselves. They don’t have parents, they can’t have children. Its narrator, Kathy H, is examining her school days at a superficially idyllic establishment called Hailsham, which raises children cloned to provide organs to “normal” people. A Kazuo Ishiguro novel is never about what it pretends to be about, and Never Let Me Go is true to form. ![]()
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