This essay argues that through the novel's controlled and marginalised setting, Ishiguro signals to the reader the clones' pseudo-imprisonment and their futility of escape from this fate. As properties of the state their role in society is as fixed as the institutions they abode, they remain as permanently 'outside' and 'othered' from society as the spaces they exist in. Despite the increasing illusion of freedom as the clones leave Hailsham, the physical landscape remains a roadblock against movement for Kathy, Tommy and Ruth. Never Let Me Go is a dystopian novel that explores a late 1990s England when normal lives are preserved through the harvesting of their clones organs who are.

They are institutions designed to give the illusion of care and nurture, which in reality exist to control and restrict. All three central settings, Hailsham, the cottages and the hospital, are as uncanny and as 'unreal' as the clones themselves, made to present as one thing but exist as another. Written in a naturally simple style and language, the novel did not force me even once to refer to a dictionarythe language that simple from a Nobel laureate speaks of a rare achievement. Kathy is empathetic, mild-mannered, and passive. She works as a 'carer,' a kind of nurse-cum-companion to clones who are in the process of making their donations, and is very good at her job. Kazuo Ishiguro’s Never Let Me Go performed that bewitching magical spell on me. is a thirty-one-year-old clone who has been bred for her organs to be harvested when she reaches adulthood. The novel's settings reflect this position of inclusion and exclusion, existing in peripheral, suburban locations outside the city. After a long time, I read a fiction that gripped me till the end. In his reimagining of an alternate past, Ishiguro explores a world where genetic modification has been extended to allow clones to harvest viral organs for sick members of society. In 'Never Let Me Go', Kazuo Ishiguro uses space as a physical representation of the central character's disconnection and ostracisation. Never Let Me Go, written by Kazuo Ishiguro and published in 1992, is one of the greatest alternative history novels ever written.

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