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“Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose loneliness. That there were sometimes forces more powerful than the wish to avoid loneliness.” ““Hope”, he said. “Damn thing never leaves you alone.”” “In the morning when the Sun returns. It’s possible for us to hope.” In this dystopian, speculative novel, we see the world through the lens of Klara, an Artificial Friend specially designed to take care of teenagers. Her child-like curiosity about the world and its inhabitants makes us wonder about what makes us human and unique. Set in a world intentionally vague (it could be anytime, anywhere) Ishiguro invites us to think about Artificial Intelligence, gene-editing, mass redundancies, loneliness, faith, and hope. Klara begins her days in a store with another android, Rosa, her friend, and Manager, a kind of mother figure. Through the window she observes how the humans interact and tries to learn their ways, always paying attention to the comings and goings of the Sun, a god-like...

Summary: A booker prize-winning novel, this memoir is a story about regret, nostalgia and self-deception. Stevens, a butler at a large English House, undertakes a six day trip to the West Country in order to meet Miss Kenton, the former housekeeper at Darlington Hall, where both worked together before World War II. While motoring the country, Stevens struggles with the past while confronting the present, trying to deny that he has devoted his life to serving a man who wasn’t as great a gentleman as he thought and regretting his inability to tell her feelings to the woman he loved. LRB Critical perspective: Ishiguro's novels are preoccupied by memories, their potential to digress and distort, to forget and to silence, and, above all, to haunt. When he was awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017, the Swedish Academy praised Ishiguro’s work for unearthing ‘the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world.’ If Ishiguro's novels tend to defy genre expectation...

I Stevens, el narrador, durante treinta años ha sido mayordomo de Darlington Hall. Lord Darlington murió hace tres años, y la propiedad pertenece ahora a un norteamericano. El mayordomo, por primera vez en su vida, hará un viaje. Su nuevo patrón regresará por unas semanas a su país, y le ha ofrecido al mayordomo su coche que fuera de Lord Darlington para que disfrute de unas vacaciones. Y Stevens, en el antiguo, lento y señorial auto de sus patrones, cruzará durante días Inglaterra rumbo a Weymouth, donde vive la señora Benn, antigua ama de llaves de Darlington Hall. Y jornada a jornada, Ishiguro desplegará ante el lector una novela perfecta de luces y claroscuros, de máscaras que apenas se deslizan para desvelar una realidad mucho más amarga que los amables paisajes que el mayordomo deja atrás. Porque Stevens averigua que Lord Darlington fue un miembro de la clase dirigente inglesa que se dejó seducir por el fascismo y conspiró activamente para conseguir una alianza entre Ingl...