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From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, 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, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?
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I loved this story. Might end up being one of my favorites of 2022, but it's too early to tell! Seeing humans through Klara's eyes made me feel like I was discovering humans for the first time too, at times. And at other times, it was interesting to see how Klara interpreted/misinterpreted the complicated human-ness of things when things are left unsaid, or humans say the opposite of what they want. It was cool that Klara could catch onto things, and sometimes, some of her questions were left unanswered.
The plot itself was pretty engaging. So many little mysteries that we slowly got to uncover as readers. Many eerie things turned out to not be that eerie. The threads mattered, and the characters had actual dimensions and personalities that I appreciated (vs. just offputting stone cold personalities that I sometimes find in scifi)
The ending act, with Klara in a junk yard made me feel sad :(
My only qualm is ...the whole Sun god thing. Like, don't they upload their AI friends with some baseline knowledge of the natural phenomenon?? or does Klara actually know something the rest of the humans don't know o.O I guess it was necessary for the plot, so I didn't mind that much.
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