Reading is my hobby, but I don't always finish reading books in English. Some books occasionally are difficult to understand or too pathetic to continue reading.
When a British friend of mine moved back to the UK, he gave some of his English books to his friends, including me. That was ten years ago, in 2008.
He showed us his book shelf and let us pick <strike>up some</strike> whatever we liked. I took "Never Let Me Go" as the writer's name, Kazuo Ishiguro, is Japanese. I thought he was<strike> a</strike> Japanese at the time. But he wasn't. He was born in Japan with Japanese parents and grew up in England, and now he has<strike> got a</strike> British nationality. He is a British author with a 100% Japanese face.
When I started this book, I thought the English was not difficult, but something strange was happening. It was very mysterious. I understood the story was about students<strike>' </strike>living in a boarding school. But the school didn't seem normal. It is isolated from the outside world and the students don't know anything about the outside. They have to get health checks every week. Suddenly, one of them is taken somewhere and doesn't return for a few months. It repeats for each student<strike>s,</strike> and when they call "complete", the student never comes back. What is completed?
"What's going on with the students?" I was too impatient to read the whole story in English. I finally purchased a Japanese version. I couldn't help reading it in Japanese and finished the whole story in a night. My guessing was right. I won't reveal it here. I should not give it away/spoil the story.
The novel was published in 2005. The author Kazuo Ishiguro won the Nobel prize in 2017.
iPS Cell was discoverd by Shinya Nakayama in 2006 and he won the Nobel prize in 2012.
I hope that the advances? of iPS Cell never make "Kazuo's world" happen in real life.
November 27, 201850
