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Everyone s reading the buzzy novel Klara and the Sun. Here s why.
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Shelves filled with books at the City Lights Bookstore, an independent bookstore founded in 1953 by poet Lawrence Ferlinghetti and Peter Martin on Columbus Avenue in San Francisco s North Beach neighborhood, the birthplace of the Beat Generation of the 1950s.Robert Alexander/Getty Images
It’s nearly summer reading season, and if you’ve stumbled onto a “best new books” list in the last month, there’s likely been one novel at the top: “Klara and the Sun,” by Japanese-born, British-raised writer Kazuo Ishiguro.
It was named Good Morning America’s Book Club pick in March, became an immediate New York Times best-seller and had the film rights acquired nearly a year before publication. Part of that buzz stems from Ishiguro’s Nobel Prize win in 2017, but he’s built a devoted following over a long career with his Booker Prize-winning “The Remains of the Day” (1989) and 2005’