Klara and the Sun [Novel:Kazuo Ishiguro]

The first novel to win the Nobel Prize in Literature. A touching story about the friendship between an AI robot and a young girl.

Clara, a robot equipped with artificial intelligence, meets Josie, a sickly girl, and the two eventually develop a friendship. What is love, what is intelligence, what is family?　A moving film that questions the meaning of life.

About the Author Kazuo Ishiguro

Born in Nagasaki, Japan on November 8, 1954, Kazuo Ishiguro moved to England in 1960 at the age of five for his father's job as an oceanographer.

He later became a British citizen. He studied English literature at the University of Kent and creative writing at the University of East Anglia.

He was awarded the Royal Society of Literature Prize in 1982 for his debut novel, Light in the Distant Mountains, and the Whitbread Prize in 1986 for Painter of the Floating World. He was awarded the Order of the Rising Sun, Gold Rays with Rosette, Japan, in 2018, and was knighted by the British Royal Family in 2019.

His other works include the long stories “The Unfulfilled” (1995), “When We Were Orphans” (2000), “Don't Let Go of Me” (2005), and “The Forgotten Giant” (2015), the short story collection “Nocturnes” (2009), and the Nobel Prize for Literature lecture “The Night of the 20th Century Express and Some Small Breakthroughs” (2017) (all published by Hayakawa Shobo).

Klara and the Sun [Novel: Kazuo Ishiguro], to be published in 2021, is his first new full-length novel in six years and his first work to win the Nobel Prize.