{"product_id":"klara-and-the-sun-a-gma-book-club-pick","title":"Klara and the Sun: A GMA Book Club Pick","description":"\n\u003ctable align=\"center\" border=\"0\" cellpadding=\"2\" cellspacing=\"0\" width=\"100%\"\u003e\n\u003ctr\u003e\n\u003ctd class=\"productDetailSmallElements\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBiographical Note\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tKAZUO ISHIGURO was born in Nagasaki, Japan, in 1954 and moved to Britain at the age of five. His eight previous works of fiction have earned him many honors around the world, including the Nobel Prize in Literature and the Booker Prize. His work has been translated into over fifty languages, and \n\u003ci\u003eThe Remains of the Day\u003c\/i\u003e and \n\u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go, \u003c\/i\u003e both made into acclaimed films, have each sold more than 2 million copies. He was given a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature. He also holds the decorations of Chevalier de l'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres from France and the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold and Silver Star from Japan.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eBrief Description\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior 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 forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?\"--\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Quotes\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003eA \u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e NOTABLE BOOK - \u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eA BOOKER PRIZE NOMINEE \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA \u003c\/i\u003eBook Club Pick \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e-\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e ONE OF PRESIDENT OBAMA'S FAVORITE BOOKS OF THE YEAR \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e-\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003eONE OF THE BEST BOOKS OF THE YEAR: \u003ci\u003eThe New York Times, Time, \u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003ci\u003e, Washington Post, Vogue\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eUSA Today, Town \u0026amp; Country, The Guardian, Vulture\u003c\/i\u003e, and more\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\"\u003c\/i\u003eOne of the most affecting and profound novels Ishiguro has written....I'll go for broke and call \n\u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e a masterpiece that will make you think about life, mortality, the saving grace of love: in short, the all of it.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMaureen Corrigan, NPR\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A delicate, haunting story, steeped in sorrow and hope.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eRon Charles, \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Washington Post\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"What stays with you in 'Klara and the Sun' is the haunting narrative voice--a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear.\" \n\u003cb\u003e--Booker Prize committee\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It aspires to enchantment, or to put it another way, reenchantment, the restoration of magic to a disenchanted world. Ishiguro drapes realism like a thin cloth over a primordial cosmos. Every so often, the cloth slips, revealing the old gods, the terrible beasts, the warring forces of light and darkness.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJudith Shulevitz, \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e The Atlantic\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Ishiguro's prose is soft and quiet. It feels like the perfect book to curl up with on a Sunday afternoon. He allows the story to unfold slowly and organically, revealing enough on every page to continue piquing the reader's curiosity. The novel is an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures...a poignant meditation on love and loneliness\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eMaggie Sprayregen, \u003ci\u003eThe Associated Press\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"For four decades now, Ishiguro has written eloquently about the balancing act of remembering without succumbing irrevocably to the past. Memory and the accounting of memory, its burdens and its reconciliation, have been his subjects... \n\u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun \u003c\/i\u003ecomplements [Ishiguro's] brilliant vision...There's no narrative instinct more essential, or more human.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eThe New York Times\u003c\/i\u003e Book Review\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\"A prayer is a postcard asking for a favor, sent upward. Whether our postcards are read by anyone has become the searching doubt of Ishiguro's recent novels, in which this master, so utterly unlike his peers, goes about creating his ordinary, strange, godless allegories.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/i\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eJames Wood, \u003ci\u003eThe New Yorker\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"One of the joys of Ishiguro's novels is the way they recall and reframe each other, almost like the same stories told in different formats...Again and again, Ishiguro asks: What does it mean to be human? What does it mean to have a self? And how much of that self can and should we give to others?\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e--\u003c\/i\u003eNPR\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Moving and beautiful... an unequivocal return to form, a meditation in the subtlest shades on the subject of whether our species will be able to live with everything it has created... [A] feverish read, [a] one-sitter... Few writers who've ever lived have been able to create moods of transience, loss and existential self-doubt as Ishiguro has -- not art about the feelings, but the feelings themselves.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eThe Los Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"As with Ishiguro's other works, the rich inner reflections of his protagonists offer big takeaways, and Klara's quiet but astute observations of human nature land with profound gravity . . . This dazzling genre-bending work is a delight.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003ePublishers Weekly \u003c\/i\u003e[starred review]\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible.\" \n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e [starred review] \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003ePraise from the UK: \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"There is something so steady and beautiful about the way Klara is always approaching connection, like a Zeno's arrow of the heart. People will absolutely love this book, in part because it enacts the way we learn how to love. \n\u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is wise like a child who decides, just for a little while, to love their doll. \"What can children know about genuine love?\" Klara asks. The answer, of course, is everything.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Anne Enright, \u003ci\u003eThe Guardian\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Flawless . . . This is a novel for fans of \n\u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e, with which it shares a DNA of emotional openness, the quality of letting us see ourselves from the outside, and a vision of humanity which -- while not exactly optimistic -- is tender, touching and true.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--John Self, \u003ci\u003eThe Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"With its hushed intensity of emotion, this fable about robot love and loneliness confirms Ishiguro as a master prose stylist.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Ian Thomson, \u003ci\u003eThe Evening Standard\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"It is innocence that forms Ishiguro's major subject, explored in novels at once familiar and strange, which only gradually display their true and devastating significance.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Jon Day, \u003ci\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"The novel is a masterpiece of great beauty, meticulous control and, as ever, clear, simple prose.\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e--Bryan Appleyard, \u003ci\u003eThe Sunday Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"A deft dystopian fable about the innocence of a robot that asks big questions about existence\" \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e\u003cb\u003e--\u003c\/b\u003eThe Financial Times\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublisher Marketing\u003c\/strong\u003e:\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cb\u003e\u003ci\u003eNEW YORK TIMES\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cb\u003eBEST SELLER - Once in a great while, a book comes along that changes our view of the world. This magnificent novel from the Nobel laureate and author of \u003ci\u003eNever Let Me Go\u003c\/i\u003e is \"an intriguing take on how artificial intelligence might play a role in our futures ... a poignant meditation on love and loneliness\" (\u003ci\u003eThe Associated Press\u003c\/i\u003e). \u003cb\u003e\u003cb\u003e- A\u003c\/b\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\u003ci\u003eGOOD MORNING AMERICA\u003c\/i\u003e Book Club Pick!\u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e \"What stays with you in 'Klara and the Sun' is the haunting narrative voice--a genuinely innocent, egoless perspective on the strange behavior of humans obsessed and wounded by power, status and fear.\" --Booker Prize committee \n\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e \u003c\/b\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e Here is the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. \n\u003ci\u003eKlara and the Sun\u003c\/i\u003e is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eReview Citations:\u003c\/strong\u003e\n\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003ePublishers Weekly\u003c\/span\u003e 11\/30\/2020 (EAN 9780593318171, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/span\u003e 12\/15\/2020 (EAN 9780593318171, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eBooklist\u003c\/span\u003e 01\/01\/2021 pg. 34 (EAN 9780593318171, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/span\u003e 02\/01\/2021 pg. 81 (EAN 9780593318171, Hardcover) - *Starred Review\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/02\/2021 (EAN 9780593318171, Hardcover)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003e\n\u003cspan class=\"italic\"\u003eShelf Awareness\u003c\/span\u003e 03\/01\/2022 (EAN 9780593311295, Paperback)\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\n\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003cbr\u003e\n\u003c\/td\u003e\n\u003c\/tr\u003e\n\u003c\/table\u003e\n","brand":"Knopf Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":51496014479638,"sku":"9780593318171","price":36.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0857\/9910\/8886\/files\/9780593318171.jpg?v=1783050572","url":"https:\/\/lusper.myshopify.com\/products\/klara-and-the-sun-a-gma-book-club-pick","provider":"Lusperbooks","version":"1.0","type":"link"}