Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun

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ASIN: B08B7V6CQ8

Ishiguro’s new novel about an Artificial Friend asks big questions about humanity, technology, and love. Klara is not the newest or snazziest model available, yet when Josie walks into the AF showroom, she insists that the observant and compassionate Klara is right for her. As Klara begins to acclimate to family life, becoming a trusted friend and companion to the gravely ill child, she realizes the Mother’s motives are darker and more desperate than Klara imagined. Fans of Never Let Me Go will enjoy Ishiguro’s signature way with words and his ever-present theme of what it means to be a person in this world. While this contemplative story told from Klara’s wonder-filled and keenly observant point of view is lighter than his previous works, I still found it to be sorrowful and deeply moving.

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NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER
A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick!

A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.

Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro’s books as “novels of great emotional force” and said he has “uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.”

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