She looks humanish, but she wouldn’t fool anyone into thinking she was actually human. A highly sophisticated, intelligent and self-aware robot, to be sure, but a robot none the less. The novel is narrated by Klara, who it soon becomes apparent is a solar-powered robot. In Never Let Me Go, Ishiguro was worried about cloning in Klara and the Sun it is artificial intelligence. His style is one of retro science fiction comprising an old-fashioned sensibility and a chilling technology from the future. He lays a blanket of melancholy over a recognisable but slightly off-kilter world. As in Never Let Me Go, his 2005 novel about human clones raised as organ donors for their original bodies, Ishiguro creates a sort of nostalgic dystopia. Klara and the Sun is about a solar-powered robotĪs soon as I started reading Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel, Klara and the Sun, I fell into the warm and familiar embrace of his writing.
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