Klara is an Artificial Friend (AF) intended to be bought for children as a companion. She spends her days staring out of a store window observing the humans and surroundings, dreaming of the life outside. When she is eventually purchased for an ill teenage girl and uprooted to the remote countryside, her unique and questioning nature is put to the test under challenging circumstances.

Probably most in in common with one of his previous novels, Never Let Me Go, this quiet yet addictive novel slowly reveals the story of a world not unlike our own, but with small and stark differences in both technology and society.

The remarkable feat that Ishiguro seems to pull off with every single book is his ability to draw humanity out of the most artificial an alienating of circumstances. Within the first few pages of Klara And The Sun we are already completely engaged and invested in the characters (both human and AF) and fear for their futures. The consistency of this author to deliver brilliant, nuanced stories is to be admired and never underestimated.

(review by Cliff)