Organ failure

摘要

Kazuo ishiguro's sixth novel is disturbing, perplexing and frustrating. It is set in the late 1990s and narrated by Kathy, a 31-year-old woman who tells the story of her life and that of her best friends, Ruth and Tommy. Kathy begins by recalling her upbringing and education at Hailsham, a seemingly idyllic boarding school set in the English countryside, where the friendships, rivalries and petty feuds of schooldays are all so realistically drawn as to be quite believable, if a little empty.