Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
Klara, an artificial friend, hopes a customer will choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
- Last updated: September 8, 2023
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"Kazuo Ishiguro is an author at the top of his craft. But rather than rest on his laurels, the knighted, Booker Award winning, and Nobel laureate author is back with Klara and the Sun."
From Nobel Prize website.
"Kazuo Ishiguro Draws On His Songwriting Past To Write Novels About The Future." 37 minutes.
Discussion Questions.
"Kazuo Ishiguro returns to masters and servants with a story of love between a machine and the girl she belongs to."
"The Nobel Prize–winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro talks to WIRED about AI, Crispr, and his hopes for humanity."