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juushikaTitle: Klara and the Sun
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Published: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 305
Total Page Count: 530,030
Text Number: 1942
Read Because: alterhuman book club read, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A solar-powered robot is purchased to be the companion of a sick child. This is sunk deep into Klara's close perspective, limited, often unconvincingly, by her knowledge; shaped by the logic she invents to explain the world. And this is the book's strength. It's an excuse to deliver plot & world piecemeal, to do fun things with visual framing, the encourage the reader's large perspective to echo, uncomfortably, the human cast. But. It also a cloaks a lack of genre-awareness and dearth of research into AI and robots, straining said worldbuilding and plot twist, substituting instead a tiresome sentimentality. I didn't like how Ishiguro handled the speculative/literary crossover in Never Let Me Go, and, unsurprisingly, didn't like it here, either. But it was an interesting book club read, so: not entirely without merit.
Author: Kazuo Ishiguro
Published: Alfred A. Knopf, 2021
Rating: 2 of 5
Page Count: 305
Total Page Count: 530,030
Text Number: 1942
Read Because: alterhuman book club read, ebook borrowed from the Multnomah County Library
Review: A solar-powered robot is purchased to be the companion of a sick child. This is sunk deep into Klara's close perspective, limited, often unconvincingly, by her knowledge; shaped by the logic she invents to explain the world. And this is the book's strength. It's an excuse to deliver plot & world piecemeal, to do fun things with visual framing, the encourage the reader's large perspective to echo, uncomfortably, the human cast. But. It also a cloaks a lack of genre-awareness and dearth of research into AI and robots, straining said worldbuilding and plot twist, substituting instead a tiresome sentimentality. I didn't like how Ishiguro handled the speculative/literary crossover in Never Let Me Go, and, unsurprisingly, didn't like it here, either. But it was an interesting book club read, so: not entirely without merit.
