Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro

 72%

22.05.22

I loved this. I described Never Let Me Go as 'science fiction with depth' and this explores the same themes from a different angle. You don't need a thrilling plot to create a compelling story, and this beautiful, gentle and detached narrative encompassed the nature of humanity, of diversity and love and life and death. And how I cried for poor, sweet Klara at the end.

Never Let Me Go - Kazuo Ishiguro

67%
05.01.07




Reviews portray this as highly literary and rather worthy. In fact, I found it to be the opposite - awkwardly written but strangely enjoyable. Certainly more engaging than Ishiguru's 'When We Were Orphans', but also similar in many ways, improving on some of the themes introduced in the earlier book. Science fiction with depth.

When We Were Orphans - Kazuo Ishiguro

57%
20.04.02




Clever and complex, but unengaging. This sort of novel is easy to admire as fine (not great) literature - a sense of place and politics, a possibly unreliable narrator, a metaphorical plot - but that doesn't make it any more fun to read.