Kazuo Ishiguro

In Klara and the Sun, Kazuo Ishiguro tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend designed to provide companionship to children. From her place in a shop window, Klara carefully observes the world around her, developing a remarkable understanding of human behavior and emotions. When a teenage girl named Josie chooses her as a companion, Klara enters a world shaped by love, illness, family tensions, and technological inequality. Narrated through Klara’s perceptive yet limited perspective, the novel explores what it means to be human and whether love and devotion can transcend the boundaries between artificial intelligence and human life. With quiet poignancy, Ishiguro examines loneliness, mortality, sacrifice, and the human desire to believe in something greater than ourselves.

London, 1938. After a music hall performance, Richard Hadley encounters the mysterious Miss Lambert, a woman who seems to have attracted the attention of dangerous forces. Intrigued and determined to protect her, Richard follows her to a secretive gathering in the English countryside and eventually boards a train bound for Scotland. As old acquaintances, political figures, and suspicious strangers enter the picture, he finds himself caught up in a puzzling adventure whose true stakes he can barely comprehend. Blending espionage, eccentric characters, music, and understated humour, Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro delivers a playful period mystery in which nothing is quite as it seems.