Klara and the Sun

By: Kazuo Ishiguro

Narrated by: Sura Siu

From the bestselling and Booker Prize winning author of Never Let me Go and The Remains of the Day, a stunning new novel - his first since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature - that asks, what does it mean to love? A thrilling feat of world-building, a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, and an international literary event.

©2021 Kazuo Ishiguro (P)2021 Faber Audio

Masterpiece

Dystopic science fiction but also a beautiful portrait of the mind of a kind robot.

stunning

surprising, sometimes tough on people, their emotional mess and inability to truly connect and be frank

Beautiful, serene storytelling

Insightful, beautiful, terrible story of love, togetherness and what it is to be human, all from a naïve narrator you can't help but fall in love with yourself. Highly recommend.

Klara and the Sun

In a timely where AI is becoming more mainstream, it won't be long before robots like Klara operate in the real world. The book makes you think, like good books should.

Much to consider

As the risk of sounding cynical, I found the 'what it is to love' theme of only secondary interest here. I much preferred the AI implications, especially the known unknowns of how an AI 'reasons'. Even Klara's novel perspective of parceling stimuli into overlapping boxes was a useful reminder of how humans default to the human experience of awareness as the universal gold standard (spare a thought for the animal kingdom). Not wild about the narrator though - a more neutral accent would have suited me better... Juliet Stevenson I'm thinking would have been spot on.