SHORTLISTED FOR THE BOOKER PRIZE
One of the most acclaimed novels of the 21st Century, from the Nobel Prize-winning author
Kazuo Ishiguro imagines the lives of a group of students growing up in a darkly skewed version of contemporary England. As children, Kathy, Ruth, and Tommy were students at Hailsham, an exclusive boarding school secluded in the English countryside. It was a place of mercurial cliques and mysterious rules where teachers were constantly reminding their charges of how special they were. Now, years later, Kathy is a young woman. Ruth and Tommy have reentered her life. And for the first time she is beginning to look back at their shared past and understand just what it is that makes them special—and how that gift will shape the rest of their time together.
#9 in the New York Times ’’100 Best Books of the 21st Century’’
**OVER 1 MILLION COPIES SOLD**
‘Brilliantly executed.’-MARGARET ATWOOD
‘A page-turner and a heartbreaker.’-TIME
‘Masterly.’-SUNDAY TIMES
’’Exquisite.’’-GUARDIAN
’’A feat of imaginative sympathy.’’-NEW YORK TIMES
