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Nobel Prize winner Ishiguro's eighth novel (after The Buried Giant)—a poignant, ultimately celebratory exploration of what it means to be human—is beautifully realized in narrator Sura Siu's virtuosic performance of Klara, a solar-powered AF (artificial friend) who has been purchased for Josie, a critically ill teenager. Through the narrow frame of Klara's earnest and childlike first-person point of view, a disturbing near-future dystopia is gradually revealed; technology has "lifted" children to e...Log In or Sign Up to Read More