Book Club: Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro ☀️🤖

Whether you’re a true bookworm or simply seeking a motivation to get reading more often, the book club is a great place for conversation and meeting new people! Come and enjoy some interesting discussion alongside more relaxed chatter, with the book as the jumping off point.

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This time, we’ll be reading Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro , visiting the near-future to meet Klara, a solar-powered artificial friend who is a companion to a sickly child called Josie ☀️👭.

Ishiguro's first novel since winning the Nobel Prize, Klara and the Sun received critical acclaim, with reviewers describing it as a "haunting fable" and a "dazzling genre-bending work" 🌟!

Themes we will no doubt discuss include the nature of artificial life, consciousness and the comparisons to be made with the AI chatbot world we now live in 🤖 💻 …

The Centurion is a relaxed, elegant and spacious bar with comfortable seating and a quiet atmosphere, well-suited to literary conversations! 📕🍷

Converted from the historic first class lounge at Central Station 🚂✨, its luxuriant environs are situated at ground floor level, easily accessible, with public transport links aplenty nearby. If you’re feeling peckish there are various shops adjacent that you can pick up nibbles from.

This is an open session, so feel free to drop by at any time during the evening: we’re pretty easygoing ☺️.

Hope you can join us 📚!