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Kazuo Ishiguro - Klara & The Sun (2nd Hand Hardback)
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Synopsis
Winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature. Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021.
The #1 Sunday Times Bestseller. Featured in Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2021.
'The Sun always has ways to reach us.'
From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside.
She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.
In Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature, 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?
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- Format : Standard 2nd Hand Hardback with Dust Jacket
- Condition : Very Good (Book As New. Dust Jacket Good - a few very small marks on inside flaps)
- Category : Fiction - Fantasy
- Published : 2021 (Faber & Faber - 1st Edition, 3rd Printing)
- ISBN : 9780571364879
- SKU : B002927
- PPC : SP700gm
- RRP : £20 (Unclipped)
- Quantity Available : 1 only.
External Reviews
'Beautiful' - The Guardian.
'Devastating' - FT.
'Another masterpiece' - The Observer.
'A masterpiece of great beauty, meticulous control and, as ever, clear, simple prose.' - The Sunday Times.
'Flawless . . . This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go, with which it shares a DNA of emotional openness, the quality of letting us see ourselves from the outside, and a vision of humanity which - while not exactly optimistic - is tender, touching and true.' - The Times.
"It takes a few years for Kazuo Ishiguro to write each of his novels, in keeping with his restrained, careful style. But they are usually worth waiting for - and this one is especially so. Reading this makes you realise what a deserving winner of various prizes he is - including the Nobel Literature prize. He is the grand master of the old literary adage 'show, don't tell'. Ishiguro almost never explicitly states anything - but you are never in any doubt about what he wants to get across. His writing is so subtle, so clever that the reader discovers everything about the characters and their situation for themselves, in a natural way. This is particularly unusual in a science fiction novel like 'Klara and the Sun'. Any other author would have needed to explain the concepts, give the bigger picture, construct a history. introduce some technical information. Ishiguro does not. He allows the reader to build up their own picture and knowledge gradually - and without anything being spelt out, I feel I understood everything I needed to." - Google Review.
'A rich meditation on love and morality.' - The Economist.
The Author
Sir Kazuo Ishiguro OBE FRSA FRSL is a British novelist, screenwriter and short-story writer. He was born in Nagasaki, Japan, and moved to England in 1960 when he was five. Ishiguro is one of the most celebrated contemporary fiction authors in the English-speaking world.
Featured Author . . . Kazuo Ishiguro