AUCKLAND
1 Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro (Faber & Faber, $37)
On Saturday night you can watch Ishiguro on livestream at the Auckland Writers Festival. The event is amusingly (depending on how you feel about puns) called A NOBEL LIFE: KAZUO ISHIGURO. Because, you know, Ishiguro won the Nobel Prize for Literature, and he always comes across as… well, you get the idea.
2 First Person Singular: Stories by Haruki Murakami (Penguin Random House, $45)
“I hardly ever wear suits. At most, maybe two or three times a year, since there are rarely any situations where I need to get dressed up. I may wear a casual jacket on occasion, but no tie, or leather shoes. That’s the type of life I chose for myself, so that’s how things have worked out.”