In 2017, Kazuo Ishiguro received the Nobel Prize for literature. Ishiguro is known for writing in many different genres: perhaps his best-known novel today is the science fiction story Never Let Me Go (2005), but he has also written in the mystery genre ( When We Were Orphans, 2000) and fantasy ( The Buried Giant, 2015). Though Ishiguro’s earliest novels were well reviewed, it’s arguable that his breakthrough was The Remains of The Day (1989), which follows a road trip by an English butler in the aftermath of World War II and was later adapted into a film. In 1986, Ishiguro met his future wife, Lorna MacDougall, while working at a homelessness charity, and the two have lived together in London ever since. In spite of this, his first two novels ( A Pale View of the Hills and An Artist of the Floating World) are set in Japan-Ishiguro drew on the experiences of his Japanese-speaking parents but has claimed to be more inspired by British and European authors such as Marcel Proust ( In Search of Lost Time). I never thought it was going to actually be an intrinsic problem in terms of how my readers would feel because my main character was artificial.Kazuo Ishiguro was born in Japan but moved to England as a child and did not return to his home country for 30 years. At some level, we're responding metaphorically because we think that it impinges, in some metaphorical relationship to our real lives, I suppose. We've put ourselves into some kind of space where we're relating to created beings.

When we read books and you get weepy over the fate of some character, we're not weeping over a real person. Because after all, characters in books are artificial. It shouldn't be that surprising, really, though, that an artificial creature could actually solicit our sympathies as much as a human one. On sympathizing with Klara, despite her being an A.I. I wanted her to remain a very optimistic character who has a childlike faith in the presence of something good and protective in the world - even as she learns all these other things, darker things about the human world that she occupies. I wanted some of that childlike freshness and openness and naivety to survive all the way through the text in her.

She's like a tabula rasa at the beginning, and she's quite childlike and very open. Klara was especially interesting for me because she doesn't bring any baggage with her. On why he wanted his narrator to be an artificial person

Klara and sun