Klara and the Sun (A NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER & A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick)

Product Description

Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro—author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day.

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells 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.

Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

Product Details (Paperback) 

Format Paperback | 320 pages
Dimensions 153 x 234 x 22mm
Publication date 02 Mar 2021
Publisher FABER & FABER
Publication City/Country London, United Kingdom
Language English
Edition Statement Export - Airside ed
ISBN10 0571364888
ISBN13 9780571364886

Product Details (Hardcover)

• Publisher : Faber & Faber; Main edition (2 Mar. 2021)
• Language : English
• Hardcover : 320 pages
• ISBN-10 : 057136487X
• ISBN-13 : 978-0571364879
• Dimensions : 15.3 x 2.3 x 23.4 cm
• Customer reviews: 
  4.3 out of 5 stars    3,031 ratings

Reviews

A masterpiece of great beauty, meticulous control and, as ever, clear, simple prose. ― Sunday Times

This is a novel for fans of Never Let Me Go, with which it shares a DNA of emotional openness, the quality of letting us see ourselves from the outside, and a vision of humanity which - while not exactly optimistic - is tender, touching and true. ― The Times

There is something so steady and beautiful about the way Klara is always approaching connection, like a Zeno's arrow of the heart. People will absolutely love this book, in part because it enacts the way we learn how to love. -- Anne Enright ― The Guardian

Another masterpiece, a work that makes us feel afresh the beauty and fragility of our humanity. -- Alex Preston ― Observer

It is innocence that forms Ishiguro's major subject, explored in novels at once familiar and strange, which only gradually display their true and devastating significance ― Financial Times

With its hushed intensity of emotion, Klara and the Sun confirms Ishiguro as a master prose stylist. ― Evening Standard

Many will rip through Klara and the Sun in one sitting. But it would be better to linger, to savour this sumptuously moving and, yes, optimistic novel . . . Intelligent, beautiful, mesmeric and a breeze to read - what more could you want? ― Metro

Genuinely moving, even beautiful, in Ishiguro's unostentatious but perfectly judged prose. ― Daily Mirror

Arguably 2021's biggest event in literary publishing. ― The Bookseller, Editor's Choice

A dazzling delight. ― Independent 

About the Author

Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight works of fiction have earned him many awards and honours around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been trans­lated into over fifty languages. The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go were made into acclaimed films. Ishiguro also writes screenplays and song lyrics. He was given a knight­hood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.