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- 30 May, 7.05pm Channel 4
Jonathan Coe debates the future of the British novel with Julian Barnes and Kazuo Ishiguro.
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Never Let Me Go is a haunting, beautifully measured novel about three children who are brought up in an apparently idyllic rural English community in the late 1990s. Kathy, now 31, looks back on childhood with its games, rivalries, cruelties and kindnesses – and its half-understood concepts of 'donations', 'caring' and 'completing'. The reader soon begins to grasp that this is not 1990s England as we knew it.
Many readers have described Ishiguro's disturbing new novel as unforgettable.
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