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A review by damien_reads
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
5.0
Klara and the Sun follows Klara, an AF (artificial friend), who is purchased by a mysterious family in this dystopian literary speculative take.
Ishiguro tends to either work for people or he doesn’t, sometimes his quiet delivery and storytelling doesn’t work for people, but it does so much for me. This is no different. Klara presents everything in a mechanical (no pun intended) way, but she is essentially a fly on the wall witnessing human emotion, she is even known to be well versed in her observational skills.
As with most of Ishiguro’s novels the speculative nature is secondary to the exploration of very human conditions such as mortality, faith, hope, and parental relationships.
Ishiguro tends to either work for people or he doesn’t, sometimes his quiet delivery and storytelling doesn’t work for people, but it does so much for me. This is no different. Klara presents everything in a mechanical (no pun intended) way, but she is essentially a fly on the wall witnessing human emotion, she is even known to be well versed in her observational skills.
As with most of Ishiguro’s novels the speculative nature is secondary to the exploration of very human conditions such as mortality, faith, hope, and parental relationships.