Never Let Me Go

by Kazuo Ishiguro

THE AUTHOR

It’s sixteen years since this book was published. Looking back now, it occurs to me there was another reason for my choice of title quite separate from anything I’ve said above. I think I wanted a song title because I was reaching not so much for a set of ideas as for a set of emotions. Of course, in a book like this the ideas have to be clearly in place or no emotion can emerge. But glancing through these pages now, I think that, much more than with many of my other books, my goal was to nail a feeling that I almost knew, but that still remained elusive to me.