Never Let Me Go

Jennifer Lahl, the Director of the Center for Bioethics and Culture has here an interesting review of Kazuo Ishiguro's latest novel, Never Let Me Go. Ishiguro's story concerns cloned children who are raised specifically to serve as caregivers (and eventually as sources of replacement organs) to their original donors. Lahl suggests that this is "a chilling and at times deeply troubling story about the lengths humans would go to rid themselves of disease and death." Nevertheless, because of the wonderful talent of Ishiguro and the pathos he captures in the children's plight, Lahl presents Never Let Me Go as an important read.