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Ishiguro’s narrator sees everything and understands only part of it. The distance between the two is where the novel lives.
Klara is an Artificial Friend, chosen to keep a sick girl company. Her observations are precise, her conclusions sometimes touchingly wrong, and her loyalty absolute.
Ishiguro has always written narrators whose limits reveal more than their words. Here that technique becomes a meditation on care, and on whether it can be manufactured.
Ask how the novel defines love — and whether Klara’s version is less real because she was made for it.
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