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Nagasaki-born British novelist, winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature, and author of Klara and the Sun.
Kazuo Ishiguro is a British novelist born in Nagasaki, Japan. He was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.
Klara and the Sun, his first novel after the Nobel, is narrated by an Artificial Friend observing the family she has been chosen to serve.
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Klara, an Artificial Friend with remarkable powers of observation, watches from a store window and then from within a family, trying to understand the people she is meant to care for.
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