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that's the plot for 'the island'
by jlebrech 13y ago
that's the plot for 'the island'
- pavlov 13y agoI guess so. It's not an original sci-fi conceit as such. What I love about Ishiguro's book is how it's cast into a nostalgic past of about 1980, in an idyllic Summerhill-style boarding school, and the cloning alt-history scenario never takes precedence over the characters. The setup is just an ominous fateful presence that made me care very much for these young people who can never really even fathom avoiding their destiny, that it wouldn't be necessary for their days to be counted before they were even conceived.