La Klara i el sol

Klara is an AF, an Artificial Friend, specializing in childcare. She spends her days in a store, waiting for someone to buy her and take her to a house, a home. While she waits, she gazes out from the shop window. She observes passersby, their attitudes, their gestures, their way of walking, and she witnesses some episodes that she does not quite understand, such as a strange fight between two taxi drivers. Klara is a singular AA, she's more observant and questionable than most of her peers. And, like her companions, she needs the Sun to feed herself, to charge her with energy... What does she expect in the outside world when she leaves the store and goes to live with a family? Does she understand well the behaviors, sudden mood swings, emotions, feelings of humans? This is Kazuo Ishiguro's first novel after being awarded the Nobel Prize. In it he plays with science fiction again, as he already did in Never Abandon Me, and he gives us a dazzling parable about our world, as he also offered in The Buried Giant. Emerge in these pages his more than proven fabulous power, the exquisiteness of his prose full of nuances and that unique ability to explore the essence of the human being and raise disturbing questions: what is it that defines us as people? What is our role in the world? What is love?...