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(0)Kazuo Ishiguro
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English
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"From her place in the store that sells artificial friends, Klara--an artificial friend with outstanding observational qualities--watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass in the street outside. She remains hopeful a customer will soon choose her, but when the possibility emerges that her circumstances may change forever, Klara she is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans. In this luminous...
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Editorial Anagrama, S.A
Pub. Date
2021.
Language
Español
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"Klara es una AA, una Amiga Artificial, especializada en el cuidado de ninos. Pasa sus dias en una tienda, esperando a que alguien la adquiera y se la lleve a una casa, un hogar. Mientras espera, contempla el exterior desde el escaparate. Observa a los transeuntes, sus actitudes, sus gestos, su modo de caminar, y es testigo de algunos episodios que no acaba de entender, como una extrana pelea entre dos taxistas. Klara es una AA singular, es mas observadora...
Author
Publisher
Putnam's
Pub. Date
[1986]
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IL: UG - BL: 7.1 - AR Pts: 11
Language
English
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From the winner of the Nobel Prize in Literature and author of the Booker Prizewinning novel The Remains of the Day. In the face of the misery in his homeland, the artist Masuji Ono was unwilling to devote his art solely to the celebration of physical beauty. Instead, he put his work in the service of the imperialist movement that led Japan into World War II. Now, as the mature Ono struggles through the aftermath of that war, his memories of his youth...