Klara and the Sun 2019
- Fiction, science fiction, general, speculative fiction, New York Times bestseller, Fiction, dystopian
"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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Contemporary, earnest, contemplative and grave.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- contemplativerelentless
- gravecomic
- intimateepic
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About the book
- Author
- Kazuo Ishiguro
- First published
- 2019
- Pages
- 334
- Publisher
- Yapı Kredi Yayınları, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Random House Large Print
- Editions
- 31
- Language
- cat, tur, Portuguese, French
- ISBN
- 9784152100061
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“Quand Rosa et moi étions neuves, on nous avait placées au milieu de la boutique, à côté de la table des magazines, ce qui nous permettait de voir la moitié de la vitrine.”
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro (born 8 November 1954) is an English novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to Britain in 1960 with his parents when he was five. He is one of the most critically-acclaimed and praised contemporary fiction authors writing in English, being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In its 2017 citation, the Swedish Academy described Ishiguro as a writer "who, in novels of great emotional force, has uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world". [source](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kazuo_Ishiguro)
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