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Klara and the Sun
An AI who worships the sun and loves one child absolutely. Ishiguro writes about what it means to be human by giving us a narrator who is not.
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What Klara Sees
Kazuo Ishiguro's 2021 novel is narrated by Klara, an Artificial Friend, a solar-powered robot designed to be a companion for children, who observes customers from her place in a shop window waiting to be chosen. When a teenager named Josie selects her, Klara enters a world of complicated human relationships, parental love, and the unanswered question of what makes a person irreplaceable. Ishiguro, who won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, brings his characteristic restraint to a story that quietly breaks your heart.


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Reading Klara and the Sun
2 Curious
3 Tender
3 Observant
4 Devout
4 Uneasy
5 Elegiac

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I'd been searching for something, only to find it was there all along, waiting for me.


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Ishiguro has said that he conceived Klara as a character who approaches the human world with genuine curiosity and no cynicism. He wanted a narrator who sees clearly precisely because she is not human.
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The novel was Ishiguro's first since winning the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. His Nobel lecture, My Twentieth Century Evening and Other Small Breakthroughs, is considered one of the finest Nobel speeches in recent years.


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