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  • The Australian Women's Weekly

    THE Reading room

    Mar 24, 2021 4 minutes
    EDITED by JULIET RIEDEN

    Science fiction

    Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro, Faber

    There’s an Orwellian aura to Kazuo Ishiguro’s powerful new novel; so much so that you can’t help feeling we will be living in this world of beneficent robots and genetic editing all too soon.

    Klara is an extraordinary protagonist, an AF – Artificial Friend – whose kindness, self-sacrifice and humanity pose many questions about what we humans have become. We first encounter Klara in a robot store. She is not the latest design – the B3s have sharper cognitive functions and better solar absorption – but B2s, from the fourth series,

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