A beautifully written, thought-provoking meditation on the clash between humanity and technology and on a society that is willing to place relative values on individual lives. Ishiguro's world is a science fiction dystopia, of course, but he prompts us to ask ourselves, is our own society really all that different?SPOILER:People have complained about spoilers in reviews, but the spoilers are, unfortunately, right there in the front of the book in the cip data, which includes the categories of "Cloning" and "Organ donors." So before I even began reading, I already knew what it was all about. Am I the only one who actually reads cip data? One of the hazards of working in publishing, I suppose.