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Klara and the Sun follows Klara, an artificial friend with exceptional observational skills, as she observes shoppers in a store and the street outside from her window, hoping a customer will select her. Through her viewpoint, the novel examines what it means to love and the changing nature of connection in a world where technology blurs the line between human and machine.
First publish date: 2019
Genre: Speculative Fiction/Speculative Fiction
Authors: Kazuo Ishiguro
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