Review

Kazuo Ishiguru has created another beautiful, confusing portrayal of artificial intelligence in Klara and the Sun

By Colin Steele
March 20 2021 - 12:00am
Kazuo Ishiguro. Picture: Getty Images
Kazuo Ishiguro. Picture: Getty Images
  • Klara and the Sun, by Kazuo Ishiguro. Faber, $32.99.

Klara and the Sun is Kazuo Ishiguro's eighth novel and his first since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017. Once more, he delves into the speculative fiction genre, as he did in his 2005 novel, Never Let Me Go, in which he examined the implications of human cloning. In Klara and the Sun, artificial intelligence, the nature of consciousness and what it is to be human are the key themes.

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