Like Stevens the butler in The Remains of the Day, she speaks in quirky locutions such as “I was able to bring several speculations together.” She and other AFs are on display in a store, where the prime real estate is the front window. Klara is an AF, an Artificial Friend available for purchase. He continues his genre-twisting ways with Klara and the Sun, a return to the dystopian tenor of Never Let Me Go that, like that work, explores whether science could-or should-manipulate the future. And his later works are wonderfully unclassifiable-not quite detective fiction or dystopian sagas but borrowing from these forms while veering into original terrain.
First-person protagonists speak in formal prose that sounds not quite right. Situations are not quite as his unreliable narrators believe. Anyone who has read Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro’s masterpieces knows that, in his works, little is as it first appears.
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