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01900aam a2200349 4500 001 FEDCB092B43C11EE853221B15BECA4DB 003 SILO 005 20240116010043 008 220405s2022||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 020 $a 0593311299 020 $a 9780593311295 035 $a (OCoLC)1308986629 040 $d TxAuBib $d SILO 100 1 $a Ishiguro, Kazuo, $e author. 245 1 $a Klara and the sun : a novel / $c Kazuo Ishiguro. 250 $a First Vintage International Edition. 264 1 $a New York, NY, USA : $b Vintage International, Vintage Books, a Division of Penguin Random House LLC, $c 2022. 300 $a 303 pages : $b paperback ; $c 21 cm. 520 $a "From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous tale, Klara and the Sun, Nobel Prize winner Kazuo Ishiguro looks at our rapidly changing modern world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator to explore a fundamental question: what does it mean to love?"-- $c Provided by publisher. 541 $d 20231227. 650 $a Future, The $v Fiction. 650 $a Robots $v Fiction. 650 $a Artificial intelligence $v Fiction. 650 $a Friendship $v Fiction. 650 $a Paid companions (Household employees) $v Fiction. 650 $a Human behavior $v Fiction. 650 2 $a Artificial Intelligence. 655 7 $a Science fiction. $2 lcgft 655 7 $a Bildungsromans. $2 lcgft 941 $a 1 952 $l SHPC094 $d 20240116011154.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=FEDCB092B43C11EE853221B15BECA4DBInitiate Another SILO Locator Search