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Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick

by Kazuo Ishiguro

A watchful view of a changing world

Critically Recognized
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Awards & Recognition

  • Award recognition

    Booker Prize Nominee

    Booker Prize nominee.

  • Bestseller

    New York Times Bestseller

  • Book club selection

    Good Morning America Book Club Pick

    Selected as a Good Morning America Book Club Pick.

AlbakiReads Editorial

A watchful view of a changing world

Klara is an Artificial Friend waiting in a store to be chosen, observing shoppers and passersby while trying to understand human behavior. The novel’s perspective places artificial intelligence alongside questions of love, loneliness, power, status, and fear. Its dystopian premise makes those questions part of a broader look at how people relate to one another and to emerging technology.

Good fit for readers who enjoy

  • For readers interested in fiction about artificial intelligence and possible futures.
  • For readers drawn to novels that explore love, loneliness, and human behavior.
  • For adult readers seeking dystopian fiction told through an artificial being’s perspective.

Themes

Artificial intelligence and the futureLove and lonelinessPower, status, and fearHuman behavior

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Book overview

SOON TO BE A MAJOR MOTION PICTURE DIRECTED BY TAIKA WAITITI AND STARRING JENNA ORTEGA AND AMY ADAMS - A NEW YORK TIMES NOTABLE BOOK - A BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE - From the Nobel Prize-winning author of Never Let Me Go and The Remains of the Day, a magnificent novel about the wondrous, mysterious nature of the human heart.

"A masterpiece that will make you think about life, mortality, the saving grace of love: in short, the all of it." --Maureen Corrigan, NPR

Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.

A thrilling feat of world-building and a novel of exquisite tenderness and impeccable restraint, Klara and the Sun is a magnificent achievement, one that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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