#56 in Dystopian
Klara and the Sun
- 335
- Pages
- about 6 h
- Reading time
- NYT bestseller · 5 weeks on the list, peaked at #6
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Our view
Klara, an Artificial Friend built to keep a child company, narrates, and her observant, slightly naive voice is the book’s great strength. The world around her is revealed slowly and never fully explained. Readers who are happy with that ambiguity get a bittersweet novel that leaves a good deal to discuss about technology and what we ask of it.
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About the book
Klara and the Sun is the eighth novel by the Japanese-British writer Kazuo Ishiguro, published on 2 March 2021. It is a dystopian science fiction story.
Where the score comes from
The sources average 7.6 across 1,314 ratings. With that many, the reader vote carries 90% of the weight and the score stays at 7.6 — the Dystopian average of 7.7 barely moves it.
| Source | Average | Ratings | Weight |
|---|---|---|---|
| Open Library | 7.6 | 48 | 4% |
| Hardcover | 7.6 | 1.3K | 96% |
Frequently asked
How long is Klara and the Sun?
It has 335 pages — shorter than 74% of the ranked books in Dystopian.
In this book
Themes this book shares with others — each leads to the best books on it.
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