These are strange times for Science fiction. Great storytellers from around the world pull more frequently on this genre previously branded as marginal. All to find spaces for narration that can explain, precisely, our strange days.
Is not that Asimov u HG Wells they were mindundis. But when they wrote science fiction all that of the imagination assaulting science, presenting us with dystopian catastrophes and alternative worlds ... It all sounded very remote. While now, with Margaret Atwood or a whole Nobel Prize in Literature as Ishiguro projecting his ideas towards futuristic assumptions, the matter takes on a transcendent face.
Science Fiction is reborn with the vitola of narrative genre of the first order thanks to writers of high rank and even touched by the Nobel Prize. And even those most attached to realism and recognizable scenarios shudder and end up going through the hoop. The good thing is that this is how you discover what a server never tired of defending. And it is that the figure for much more when you open your mind and enjoy that unusual approach to this genre.
Synopsis
Klara is an AA, 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 you wait, look outside from the window. He observes the passers-by, their attitudes, their gestures, their way of walking, and he witnesses some episodes that he does not quite understand, such as a strange fight between two taxi drivers. Klara is a unique AA, more observant and questionable than most of her peers. And, like his companions, he needs the Sun to feed himself, to charge himself with energy ...
What awaits you in the outside world when you leave the store and go to live with a family? Do you 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 returns to play with science fiction, as he already did in Never leave me, and 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?…
Narrated by the curious and inquisitive Klara, an artificial being who asks very human questions, the novel is a dazzling tour de force in which Ishiguro moves us once again and tackles deep issues that few contemporary storytellers dare to tackle.
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