PositiveProspectWhen he’s good, he’s very good—and distinctive, too ... Certain images will stay with me.
Kazuo Ishiguro
PositiveThe Spectator (UK)The first 200 pages of Klara and the Sun can try the reader’s patience. Apart from an undeveloped plotline about human gene editing, there isn’t much intrinsic drama ... But the last 100 pages mostly redeem the novel. As with Ishiguro’s other books, it works on you without you quite realising ... even when Ishiguro is operating on autopilot, he is far ahead of his imitators.