It is a thought experiment disguised as a fairy tale, or perhaps vice versa. Klara and the Sun – Kazuo Ishiguro’s first novel since being awarded the 2017 Nobel Prize for Literature – put me in mind ...

In Klara and the Sun, the latest book by Kazuo Ishiguro, the acclaimed novelist introduces his reader to Artificial Friends (AFs). These sentient androids are displayed in shops, to be bought as ...

Not that washed items are capable of photosynthesis, of course, but they looked as if they were getting charged with the sun’s energy. “Klara and the Sun,” the latest novel by British author ...