Klara and the Sun book review: If robots could feel
Klara is a unique Artificial Friend (AF) with unusual insight and outstanding observational qualities. Companions for the youth, AFs get their nourishment from the sun’s rays.
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In many ways, the book is also a realistic prediction about the increasingly isolated world that we live in.
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Klara is a unique Artificial Friend (AF) with unusual insight and outstanding observational qualities. Companions for the youth, AFs get their nourishment from the sun’s rays. They are meant to help encourage in children empathy as well as a conscientious and studious attitude. Unlike most AFs, Klara carefully watches and absorbs the actions of passersby from the place where she is displayed inside a store. Often what she notices about human nature and the world outside disturbs and puzzles her. She tries to make sense of mortal concepts, and struggles to comprehend convoluted emotions, wh
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