Klara and the Sun
Kazuo Ishiguro · 2021
An artificial friend narrates her observations of human love and sacrifice with such gentle precision that the novel becomes, unexpectedly, a deeply moving exploration of consciousness and devotion. Ishiguro's post-Nobel novel. Immaculate.
The case against
Ishiguro has written this novel before, and better: Never Let Me Go already covered devoted narrators raised for use, and Klara adds solar worship plus a vaguer world. Whole subplots (the lifting, the father's community, the Cootings Machine) get gestured at and dropped. Klara's serene flatness is the point, which does not stop it from flattening the book around her.
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