![]() ![]() Instead, she is an AF or “artificial friend,” a robotic being resembling a human child, designed to comfort lonely children. ![]() The eponymous narrator of Klara and the Sun is unlike any of Ishiguro’s previous narrators in that she is not human. But even so he cheerfully admits he “can’t write in the third person,” and says he finds it hardest of all to “write like myself.” Given his accomplishments, a little more self-grandiosity might be expected - a Booker Prize winner at the age of 34 for his novel The Remains of the Day (1989), he has honorary degrees from a league table of universities, and was placed in literature’s highest pantheon by the Nobel committee in 2017. Even over video chat, Ishiguro, or “Ish” as he introduces himself, is charming and self-effacing company. ![]()
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