'Never Let Me Go' is a piercing book that rightly ranks among the 100 best English novels of all time. Its author is a native-born Japanese, a graduate of Malcolm Bradbury's literary seminar and Booker Prize winner for the novel 'The Remains of the Day'.

Thirty-year-old Kathy recalls her childhood at the privileged Hailsham school, full of strange reticence, half-revelations and an underlying threat. This is a parable novel. This is a story of love, friendship, and memory. This is the ultimate materialization of the metaphor 'to serve with one's whole life'.

It is also a parable novel about the present and the past, evoking spiritual turmoil and pain. Pain that will heal, but will stay with you long after reading.

Adapted for film in 2010.