Showing results for "klara and the sun" in Literature & Fiction

From her place in the store, Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, watches carefully the behaviour 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 for ever, Klara is warned not to invest too much in the promises of humans.

England, 1930s. Christopher Banks has become the country's most celebrated detective, his cases the talk of London society. Yet one unsolved crime has always haunted him: the mysterious disappearance of his parents, in old Shanghai, when he was a small boy. Moving between London and Shanghai of the interwar years, When We Were Orphans is a remarkable story of memory, intrigue and the need to return.

نسخه صوتی کتاب «کلارا و خورشید» نوشته کازوئو ایشی‌ گورو، داستان ربات دوست‌داشتنی و جذابی است که رفتاری متفاوت از دیگر ربات‌ها دارد. راوی داستان همین ربات است. او در یک مغازه کنار ربات دیگری به نام رزا برای فروش گذاشته شده است. ربات‌ها فرصت دارند در مغازه برای مدت کوتاهی پشت ویترین بروند و در آنجا منتظر بمانند تا خریده شوند. این ...