TIME. Part of me wanted to reply to
Never Let Me Go (Faber, 2005), which is a very sad book. It s not pessimistic exactly, but it s very sad. I wanted to reply to that vision . With a story similarly examining the hypothetical, and not wholly unrealistic, future rounded out by artificial intelligence, both novels approach and ultimately deal with the subject in their own ways. If you are anything resembling this reviewer, please do not conceive any notions based on the insipid film adaptations of
Never Let Me Go (2010) and the thoroughly fine, if unremarkable,
Remains of the Day (1993).
Don t be dissuaded, either, by the platitudes surrounding this novel s release. What does it mean to love? is a quote you ll find tied around its marketing. The back of the first edition pulls out the quote, Do you believe in the human heart? , which sounds more like a Cher song than the circumstances in which the question is asked in the novel in the middle of a taut, confused conversation