![]() ![]() That's the wide-focus social backdrop of this novel but most of the time, we're seeing things through the narrow view of Klara, our first-person narrator. ![]() Technology has rendered many people "postemployed" and created a blunt caste system where the so-called "lifted" are on top. 23, 2021 7 AM PT On the Shelf Klara and the Sun By Kazuo Ishiguro Knopf: 320 pages, 28 If you buy. (Andrew Testa/Knopf) By Charles Finch Feb. The story is set in a United States of the near future, a place riven by tribal loyalties and fascist political movements. Harvard Book Store welcomes KAZUO ISHIGURO, award-winning author of Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go, and journalist ROBERT BIRNBAUM for a reading and. Author Kazuo Ishiguro of Klara and the Sun. ![]() Klara and the Sun is yet another return pilgrimage and it's one of the most affecting and profound novels Ishiguro has written. Like a medieval pilgrim walking a cathedral labyrinth in meditation, Ishiguro keeps pacing his way through these big existential themes in his fiction. He is the master of slowly deepening our awareness of human failing, fragility and the inevitability of death - all that, even as he deepens our awareness of what temporary magic it is to be alive in the first place. Winning the Nobel comes with around 1.1 million in prize money, and a lasting legacy. Lest you think that doesn't sound like much of an enticement, know that I've probably written something like that sentence about every Ishiguro novel I've read. I wrote that one-sentence review to myself about half-way through reading Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro's just published eighth novel. ![]()
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