Klara and the Sun is a novel by Kazuo Ishiguro. The story is set in the future, and it is narrated by a sentient robot named Klara. Klara is purchased as a companion for a sickly 14-year-old girl named Josie. They form a bond, and Klara begins pursuing ways of potentially fighting Josie’s illness. Along the way, the reader becomes increasingly acquainted with the novel’s specific futuristic world. The novel explores themes of technology, personhood, hope, and social division.
"When I write a novel perhaps some part of me wants to offer in a book an experience that you can't get easily sitting in front of a cinema screen or a television screen," novelist Kazuo Ishiguro told...
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Kazuo Ishiguro's literary reputation was established by three novels published over seven years: A Pale View of Hills won the Royal Society of Literature's Winifred Holtby Prize for the best first nov...
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Kazuo Ishiguro
Kazuo Ishiguro