Klara and the Sun

Product Description Longlisted for the Booker Prize 2021The #1 Sunday Times BestsellerFeatured in Barack Obama's Summer Reading List 2021'This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go . . . tender, touching and true.' The Times'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?'Beautiful' Guardian 'Flawless' The Times 'Devastating' FT 'Another masterpiece' Observer Review 'A master craftsman.' - Margaret Atwood 'Ishiguro is a remarkable novelist.' - Neil Gaiman Review A masterpiece of great beauty, meticulous control and, as ever, clear, simple prose. ― Sunday Times 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 There is something so steady and beautiful about the way Klara is always approaching connection, like a Zeno's 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 Another masterpiece, a work that makes us feel afresh the beauty and fragility of our humanity. -- Alex Preston ― Observer It is innocence that forms Ishiguro's major subject, explored in novels at once familiar and strange, which only gradually display their true and devastating significance ― Financial Times With its hushed intensity of emotion, Klara and the Sun confirms Ishiguro as a master prose stylist. ― Evening Standard Many will rip through Klara and the Sun in one sitting. But it would be better to linger, to savour this sumptuously moving and, yes, optimistic novel . . . Intelligent, beautiful, mesmeric and a breeze to read - what more could you want? ― Metro Genuinely moving, even beautiful, in Ishiguro's unostentatious but perfectly judged prose. ― Daily Mirror Arguably 2021's biggest event in literary publishing. ― The Bookseller, Editor's Choice A dazzling delight. ― Independent This is a very moving love story that asks terrifying questions about the impact of big data on human identity while rewriting the conventions of dystopian fiction. ― Daily Mail Ishiguro's characteristic command of poignant understatement at its very best. ― Irish Times Ishiguro has built a superstructure of enormous emotional and intellectual complexity. It is an extraordinarily rich work of art, compulsively readable and dense with meaning. ― Irish Independent Superbly imagined details . . . a virtuoso performance. ― The Week, 'Book of the Week' A rich meditation on love and morality. ― The Economist Book Description Klara and the Sun is the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature 2017 About the Author Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His nine works of fiction have earned him many honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, both made into acclaimed films, have each sold over a million copies in Faber editions. He received a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the O