Klara and the sun a novel
Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro -- author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an...
| Main Author: | Ishiguro, Kazuo, 1954- (Author) |
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| Format: | Downloads eBook Books eBook |
| Language: | English |
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2021.
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| Summary: |
Klara and the Sun is a magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro -- author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love? In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world." |
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| Physical Description: |
1 online resource |
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Requires OverDrive Read (file size: N/A KB) or Adobe Digital Editions (file size: 818 KB) or Kobo app or compatible Kobo device (file size: N/A KB). |
| ISBN: |
9780593318188 |
| Author Notes: |
His first novel, A Pale View of Hills, received the Winifred Holtby Award from the Royal Society of Literature. His second novel, An Artist of the Floating World, received the Whitbread Book of the Year Award in 1986. His third novel, The Remains of the Day, received the Man Booker Prize for Fiction in 1989 and was adapted into a film starring Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson. His other works include The Unconsoled, When We Were Orphans, Never Let Me Go, Nocturnes: Five Stories of Music and Nightfall, and The Buried Giant. He was awarded the OBE in 1995 for services to literature and the Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres by the French government in 1998. He received the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. He has also written several songs for jazz singer Stacey Kent and screenplays for both film and television. (Bowker Author Biography) |