Klara And The Sun

Cover Type: Softcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: None Issued
Publisher: Faber Fiction
Publisher Place: London
Publisher Year: 2021
Edition: First Edition

Description: 307 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017. 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, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love There is something so steady and beautiful about the way Klara is always approaching connection, like a Zenos arrow of the heart. People will absolutely love this book, in part because it enacts the way we learn how to love. - Anne Enright, The Guardian 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 Industry Reviews A masterpiece of great beauty, meticulous control and, as ever, clear, simple prose. - Sunday TimesAnother masterwork, a work that makes us feel afresh the beauty and fragility of our humanity - ObserverIntelligent, beautiful, mesmeric and a breeze to read - what more could you want - MetroA delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope. - The Washington PostFor four decades now, Ishiguro has written eloquently about the balancing act of remembering without succumbing irrevocably to the past. Memory and the accounting of memory, its burdens and its reconciliation, have been his subjects... Klara and the Sun complements [Ishiguros] brilliant vision...Theres no narrative instinct more essential, or more human. - The New York Times Book ReviewA prayer is a postcard asking for a favor, sent upward. Whether our postcards are read by anyone has become the searching doubt of Ishiguros recent novels, in which this master, so utterly unlike his peers, goes about creating his ordinary, strange, godless allegories. - The New YorkerFew writers whove ever lived have been able to create moods of transience, loss and existential self-doubt as Ishiguro has - not art about the feelings, but the feelings themselves. - The Los Angeles Times

ISBN: 9780571364886