A review by youngdumbandbooks
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro

emotional funny hopeful inspiring lighthearted reflective relaxing sad medium-paced

• Plot- or character-driven? A mix
• Strong character development? Yes
• Loveable characters? Yes
• Diverse cast of characters? Yes
• Flaws of characters a main focus? It's complicated

4.5

Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro is a beautifully written futuristic novel featuring Klara, an artificial friend (AF). In this cutting edge novel Ishiguro manifests the fragility and wavering of human heart and its feelings. The world in Klara and the sun have two categories of children, “lifted” and “not lifted”; “lifted” being the children who are genetically modified and “not lifted” being the children who are not genetically modified. Josie, a 'lifted' child buys Klara to support Josie’s declining health. Taken to Josie’s home, Klara perceives what humans are like and finds a home. A contemporary novel, with wide-ranging characters, it captivated me from the beginning and, trust me, that do not happen more often to me.

This is my first Ishiguro novel and I loved his writing style. I always believed in digressive writing and loved reading such works. However, he surprised me with KatS’s plain writing style. He has authored everything on to the point rather than deviating from the actual plot. I did not have to annotate anywhere in the book since although it was a philosophical book (sort of) it did not really have any quotes or references worth annotating. Consequently, it is also one of the things that makes Klara and the sun different.

Although I loved the plot twist and everything, some parts were a bit underwhelming and predictable.