![]() ![]() ![]() She is solar-powered, and speaks about the sun as a person of faith would speak about God: with reverence, awe, petition. The world is enchanted for Klara, full of mysteries she hopes to understand. Klara notices everything, and speaks about it with simple poeticism, granting a surprising new perspective on life. Klara attends to the world with unbridled curiosity, and any knowledge gained serves her primary purpose: to care for a child. This is made possible by the novel’s narrator, Klara, a robotic AF (artificial friend) who looks after a girl (Josie) whose health is suffering after a procedure of genetic editing (lifting) to improve her IQ. ![]() ![]() Yet at the heart of this story is not horror but wonder. The novel takes place in a not-too-distant future of polluted cities, human workforces rendered leisured and useless by machines, children looked after by robots, the looming prospect of singularity. Following his devastating romantic tragedy Never Let Me Go, Kazuo Ishiguro’s new novel Klara and the Sun inhabits a similar dystopian future, and yet the forces he explores are not so much those of technology but rather those of love, faith, and human nature. Increasingly, one of those forces is technology. We live at the mercy of forces we cannot control. ![]()
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