Kazuo Ishiguro — Klara and the Sun

London, Faber and Faber, 2021. First edition. Cloth. A very pleasing copy of the first edition, first impression of Kazuo Ishiguro"s 2021 science fiction novel, in the original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition of Kazuo Ishiguro"s 2021 science fiction novel, in the original cloth with the original unclipped dust wrapper. The first edition, first impression, with the full number line. Klara and the Sun is a dystopian science fiction story. Set in the US in an unspecified future, the book is told from the point of view of Klara, a solar-powered Artificial Friend, who is chosen by Josie, a sickly child, to be her companion. It is the eighth novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, a Japanese-born British novelist, screenwriter, musician, and short-story writer. Ishiguro is one of the most critically acclaimed contemporary fiction authors writing in English, having been awarded several major literary prizes, including the 2017 Nobel Prize in Literature. In the publisher's original cloth with the original bright, unclipped dust wrapper. Externally, excellent. Dust wrapper excellent. Internally, firmly bound. Pages clean and bright. Fine . Ill.: None. Fine/Fine.