Klara and the Sun
by Kazuo Ishiguro
4/5
Knopf 307 pages March 2, 2021
Klara is an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities who, from her place in the store, watches the behavior of those who come to browse and the passersby outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro crafts a haunting meditation on love, consciousness, and what it means to be human.
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Leave it to a Nobel Prize winner to make Jim — a humble bookworm — question the very nature of consciousness. Klara's perspective is so innocent and observant that Jim felt like he was seeing the world through brand new eyes. Ishiguro burrows into the most profound questions with such gentle prose that you barely notice how deeply he's gotten under your skin. Quietly devastating and absolutely beautiful.
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