Title: Never Let Me Go
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Book cover for Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro's haunting dystopian novel.
The illustration responds to a passage in the opening chapter, in which the narrator drives through the countryside, nostalgically reminiscing about her childhood in an attempt to escape the bleak present. Unknowingly searching for traces of a past that is gradually disappearing, she turns the countryside into a vast map of her own memory.
Eerie, melancholic, and understated, Never Let Me Go is a quietly devastating meditation on memory, love, and what it means to be human.
