Klara and the Sun - Kazuo Ishiguro [Online meeting]

N.B.: this meeting will be held online via Google Meet There is also an in-person session being held on Wednesday in the Prince of Wales pub near Covent Garden.

This event is a Local Partner Event, supported by The Royal Institute of Philosophy

Come and explore how technology changes what it means to be human alongside a protagonist who is not one of us. Klara is an Artificial Friend, made for personal companionship who is learning her place in a world of human notions like love, faith and progress. A novel that is becoming increasingly relevant and full of ideas in pressing need of discussion.

The meeting starts at 7 pm with drink breaks at 8 and 9. The discussion will end around 10 pm but leave whenever you need to.

You can buy the book in multiple formats from Amazon or search it out in a wonderful local bookshop or library.

Here's the summary from goodreads.com

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that 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 Klara and the Sun, 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?