“Never Let Me Go” Author Kazuo Ishiguro Thinks Writers Who Hate Film Remakes Should Get Over Themselves. Kazuo Ishiguro discusses his intention behind writing the novel, Never Let Me Go. Kazuo Ishiguro discusses Never Let Me Go. Interview: Kazuo Ishiguro. From his semi-detached house in suburban Golders Green, in north London, Kazuo Ishiguro has made himself an architect of singular, self-enclosed worlds.
His writing traps us inside strange skulls. He spends, he says, around five years on each of his books and the first couple of these years, each time, involves little circumnavigations of the imaginative space of his novel, marking boundaries, testing structures, making himself at home. All of his quietly unsettling, intimate vantages have foundations in the voices that narrate them and he spends a good deal of time, too, 'auditioning' these voices, listening to different possibilities, before he settles on one.
The voice of his new, oppressively brilliant novel, Never Let Me Go, is that of Kathy H, who at 31 is looking back on her curious English boarding-school days at a place called Hailsham.