“Klara and the Sun” Kazuo Ishiguro (2021) Review | Artificial Friends, are they friends?

Klara and the sun
Kazuo Ishiguro, 2021
307 pages
Read in 2024.5
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✔ Dystopia, life with an AI friend 
✔ Challenges concepts of family and friendship 
✔ Sad, heart breaking


🔽 Review summary 🔽
★★★★★ As always his stories are sad. Not too dramatic but subtly and surely sad. Artificial Friends; are they friends, or pets or toys? Surely not just things?


🔽 Book review and notes 🔽

As always his stories are sad. Not too dramatic but a bit sad.

Artificial Friends are there, maybe a bit like pets, puppies, except they are things, regardless of their intelligence. 

A lot happens around her but we only see it from her point of view. 
So we're not able to see the intention behind the actions from human. 
Are they selfish? 
Maybe not so much, it's just how things are, and for us how things will be soon. 

She has her mission and asks the Sun for guidance and eventually in order to pursue she is willing to be violent simply because that is her mission. 
So is she a threat? But really, it seems like she's the only one to remain innocent, or "human"

🔽 Where to buy 🔽

●●● Amazon.com (US) ●●●

Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick: A novel (Vintage International)

●●● Amazon.co.uk (UK) ●●●
Klara and the Sun: The Times and Sunday Times Book of the Year 

●●● Amazon.it (Italy) ●●●
Klara e il Sole (Italiano)