![]() ![]() ![]() But while the truth about her life, in fact about her very existence, is bleakly traumatising, our view of it is normalised through the innocent acceptance of childhood. We're told the story through the memories of our narrator, Kathy. And through those experiences, the reader gets to slowly build an image of the world themselves. Because, rather than showing us the world the characters live in, Ishiguro instead shows us how the characters live in it. But I think it's largely to do with the way it tells its story. It's hard to put my finger on exactly how this novel gets its fingers into your mind. But now it's happened again with Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go. And this means I can find out exactly when I last read a book that left my mind racing and immediately took its place at the top of my favourite books.Īnd so I can say that the last time this happened, with Life After Life, was over four years ago. The good thing about websites like Goodreads is that it allows you to look back on the exact dates you read a certain book. ![]()
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