6/22/2023 0 Comments Klara and the sun goodreadsI have said this in previous reviews of Ishiguro and will say it again: he is a master narrator. Meanwhile, she develops her own almost superstitious idea for how she can aid her chronically ill companion. Klara’s unusual perspicacity and observant nature, for an AF, means many of the people around her confide in her. Bought for a 12-year-old girl named Josie, Klara has to adapt to leaving her store and being among quixotic humans and their unusual habits. Her kind is solar powered, so she yearns to see and feel the Sun and, during her time at the store where she is featured, Klara develops a kind of mythical reverence for the Sun. The eponymous Klara is an Artificial Friend, a kind of girlish android designed to be a companion to young people. Why keep reading an author who seems to be perpetually earning two-star ratings from you? Well, I took a chance, and in this case my risk was rewarded. So when Klara and the Sun kept shining down upon me from various bookshelves and corners of the internet, I was hesitant. While I adored that book and his best known The Remains of the Day, each of his subsequent works didn’t do much for me. Kazuo Ishiguro and I go way back to 2009, a year after I started writing these reviews, when I read Never Let Me Go.
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