She is some kind of robot, to be sure, even though, despite long passages of description, we never quite learn what Klara looks like, and how humans so consistently and easily tell her apart. Klara is an Artificial Friend-an AF, as they’re referred to-but the name is both literal and ironic. So once the grid went up, the realization that there was now only the glass between me and the sidewalk, that I was free to see, close up and whole, so many things I’d seen before only as corners and edges, made me so excited…” “I’d always longed to see more of the outside,” she says, “and to see it in all its detail. Klara, the narrator of Kazuo Ishiguro’s slow burn Klara and the Sun, spends most of the first section of the novel in a store, sometimes looking out the storefront window to observe her sliver of street life.
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