English literature in Reclam's Red Series: this is the original English text - unabridged and unedited with word explanations at the foot of each page, an afterword, and references. The novel begins like a normal boarding school story: the three friends Ruth, Kathy and Tommy go through thick and thin together and experience the turmoil of first love. But it soon becomes clear that Hailsham is no ordinary school. The students are human clones whose bodies have been grown for organ donation. Still, they have feelings, and the prospect of dying soon puts the relationship between the three main characters to the test. Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro's book, which was made into a film in 2010, asks the very big questions about friendship, betrayal, sacrifice and morality. English reading: Level B2 - C1 (CEFR).