Klara and the Sun / Kazuo Ishiguro.
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TextPublisher: London : Faber & Faber, 2022Copyright date: ©2021Description: 340 pages ; 20 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 057136490X; 9780571364909Subject(s): Robots -- Fiction | Artificial intelligence -- FictionDDC classification: 823.92 Summary: "From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, 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 world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?" -- Back cover
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| 823.92 HOR The House of Silk / | 823.92 HOR Close to death / | 823.92 HYD The gifts / | 823.92 ISH Klara and the Sun / | 823.92 JAC An inheritance of magic / | 823.92 JEW Before I met you / | 823.92 JEW The family remains / |
Reprint. Originally published: 2021.
"From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change for ever, 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 world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?" -- Back cover
Originally published: 2021
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