Virtual Event: Kazuo Ishiguro

Harvard Book Store's virtual event series and Politics and Prose are thrilled to welcome Nobel Laureate KAZUO ISHIGURO—author of the beloved, bestselling novels The Remains of the Day and Never Let Me Go—for a discussion of his latest novel, Klara and the Sun. He will be joined in conversation by KATE DARLING, a leading expert in robot ethics and author of the forthcoming book, The New Breed: What Our History with Animals Reveals about Our Future with Robots.

Ticketing

All tickets include a hardcover copy of Klara and the Sun. (The tickets including signed bookplates are SOLD OUT. Book-included tickets without bookplates are still available.)

Books bundled with tickets will be shipped out after the event. Please note: we are unable to ship internationally.

About Klara and the Sun

Klara and the Sun, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her.

Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?

In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."

Praise for Klara and the Sun

“As with Ishiguro’s other works, the rich inner reflections of his protagonists offer big takeaways, and Klara’s quiet but astute observations of human nature land with profound gravity . . . This dazzling genre-bending work is a delight.” —Publishers Weekly

“A haunting fable of a lonely, moribund world that is entirely too plausible.” —Kirkus Reviews