"Klara and the Sun" [UK] Kazuo Ishiguro 2021 Foreign Literature (Fiction)

“The sun always finds a way to reach us, no matter where we are.”

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Clara is a solar-powered artificial intelligence (AF) robot designed to accompany children, with high observation, reasoning and empathy abilities. She sits in a store display window, watching the street passers-by and the children who come to browse the window. She always hopes that someone will choose her soon, but when this possibility of permanently changing her situation arises, Clara is reminded not to trust human promises too much.

In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro observes the ever-changing modern society through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator and explores a fundamental question: What is love?

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"Do you believe in the existence of a 'human heart'?

I don't just mean the organ, of course.

I'm talking about the literary meaning of the word.

Human heart. Do you believe there is such a thing?

Something that makes each of us unique and individual?"