KAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages, and The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, both made into acclaimed films, have each sold more than 2 million copies. 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.
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“One of the most affecting and profound novels Ishiguro has
written….I'll go for broke and call Klara and the Sun a masterpiece
that will make you think about life, mortality, the saving grace of
love: in short, the all of it.”
—Maureen Corrigan, NPR
“A delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope.”
—Ron Charles, The Washington Post
“What stays with you in ‘Klara and the Sun’ is the haunting
narrative voice—a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the
strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status
and fear.” —Booker Prize committee
“It aspires to enchantment, or to put it another way,
reenchantment, the restoration of magic to a disenchanted world.
Ishiguro drapes realism like a thin cloth over a primordial cosmos.
Every so often, the cloth slips, revealing the old gods, the
terrible beasts, the warring forces of light and darkness.”
—Judith Shulevitz, The Atlantic
“Ishiguro’s prose is soft and quiet. It feels like the perfect book
to curl up with on a Sunday afternoon. He allows the story to
unfold slowly and organically, revealing enough on every page to
continue piquing the reader’s curiosity. The novel is an intriguing
take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our
futures...a poignant meditation on love and loneliness”
—Maggie Sprayregen, The Associated Press
“For four decades now, Ishiguro has written eloquently about the
balancing act of remembering without succumbing irrevocably to the
past. Memory and the accounting of memory, its burdens and its
reconciliation, have been his subjects… Klara and the Sun
complements [Ishiguro’s] brilliant vision…There’s no narrative
instinct more essential, or more human.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“A prayer is a postcard asking for a favor, sent upward. Whether
our postcards are read by anyone has become the searching doubt of
Ishiguro’s recent novels, in which this master, so utterly unlike
his peers, goes about creating his ordinary, strange, godless
allegories.”
—James Wood, The New Yorker
“One of the joys of Ishiguro's novels is the way they recall and
reframe each other, almost like the same stories told in different
formats...Again and again, Ishiguro asks: What does it mean to be
human? What does it mean to have a self? And how much of that self
can and should we give to others?”
—NPR
“Moving and beautiful… an unequivocal return to form, a meditation
in the subtlest shades on the subject of whether our species will
be able to live with everything it has created… [A] feverish read,
[a] one-sitter… Few writers who’ve ever lived have been able to
create moods of transience, loss and existential self-doubt as
Ishiguro has — not art about the feelings, but the feelings
themselves.”
—The Los Angeles Times
“As with Ishiguro’s other works, the rich inner reflections of his
protagonists offer big takeaways, and Klara’s quiet but astute
observations of human nature land with profound gravity . . . This
dazzling genre-bending work is a delight.”
—Publishers Weekly [starred review]
“A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too
plausible.”
—Kirkus Reviews [starred review]
Praise from the UK:
“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. Klara and the Sun is wise like a
child who decides, just for a little while, to love their doll.
“What can children know about genuine love?” Klara asks. The
answer, of course, is everything.”
—Anne Enright, The Guardian
“Flawless . . . 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.”
—John Self, The Times
“With its hushed intensity of emotion, this fable about robot love
and loneliness confirms Ishiguro as a master prose stylist.”
—Ian Thomson, The Evening Standard
“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.”
—Jon Day, The Financial Times
“The novel is a masterpiece of great beauty, meticulous control
and, as ever, clear, simple prose.”
—Bryan Appleyard, The Sunday Times
“A deft dystopian fable about the innocence of a robot that asks
big questions about existence”
—The Financial Times
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