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A review by thechanelmuse
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro
2.0
I went into Klara and the Sun blindly, hoping to be blown away by Ishiguro’s writing style and storytelling, since this is the first book he’s written since winning the Nobel Prize and the first book I’m reading from the author. I was left me bored and underwhelmed.
Part One was cool and whimsical-like to see things from the vantage point of an android that’s in a store awaiting to be purchased by a passerby as a child’s artificial friend. I wish that was a short story. It’s compelling enough and leaves you wanting more.
Ishiguro mentioned in an interview that his original idea for Klara and the Sun was for it to be a children’s story, but changed his mind upon the suggestion of his daughter. I wish he stuck with his original idea. Part One has a child-like innocence to it and it would’ve been interesting to see how the story would unfold from that perspective.
What we’re left with after that compelling section is lackluster because everything feels underdeveloped from the world-building to the characters. (The adults feel like they are written as teens in some parts.) Some things in the book caught my attention in wanting to know more but it remained cryptic or didn’t live up to its hype. It was a pain to slog through this book just to see what the end would reveal.
Part One was cool and whimsical-like to see things from the vantage point of an android that’s in a store awaiting to be purchased by a passerby as a child’s artificial friend. I wish that was a short story. It’s compelling enough and leaves you wanting more.
Ishiguro mentioned in an interview that his original idea for Klara and the Sun was for it to be a children’s story, but changed his mind upon the suggestion of his daughter. I wish he stuck with his original idea. Part One has a child-like innocence to it and it would’ve been interesting to see how the story would unfold from that perspective.
What we’re left with after that compelling section is lackluster because everything feels underdeveloped from the world-building to the characters. (The adults feel like they are written as teens in some parts.) Some things in the book caught my attention in wanting to know more but it remained cryptic or didn’t live up to its hype. It was a pain to slog through this book just to see what the end would reveal.