Here, it is a character in a similarly servile role: Klara, a highly sophisticated robot – referred to in-universe as an Artificial Friend, or “AF” – who has been brought into the home of a severely ill teenage girl named Josie. In Remains of the Day, easily Ishiguro’s masterpiece, that narrator was the long-serving butler Mr. Like nearly all of Ishiguro’s novels, Klara is written in the retrospective first-person, the narrator recalling a period in which they played a small but important part in someone else’s life. Kazuo Ishiguro and the cover of Klara and the Sun But Chicken Soup for the Robot Soul was not quite what I was expecting. That said, I enjoyed Klara, and it serves as a nice antidote to the cynicism that plagues a lot of contemporary fiction. And if that sounds trite, well, then you already understand Klara‘s flaws. Perhaps because of this, it is also a lesser work a well-meaning but hardly revelatory rumination on love, faith, and faith in the power of love. Kazuo Ishiguro’s much-anticipated Klara and the Sun, his first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017, is likely his most earnest work, and also his most straightforward.
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