
And because she knows that she's something to do with loneliness, she studies what she can see out there in terms of human loneliness. She's in the store waiting to be bought, and the only thing she knows about the world outside is what she can see through the store's window, the street outside. And a lot of it takes place inside the head of Klara, who is a small AI girl robot created to keep teenagers from becoming lonely.

KAZUO ISHIGURO: Well, it's kind of slightly futuristic. It's called "Klara And The Sun." And I asked Kazuo Ishiguro to describe the world where this novel takes place. His books have been adapted into successful movies, like "The Remains Of The Day" and "Never Let Me Go." Well, his new novel returns to many of the themes from those earlier works.

The author Kazuo Ishiguro has won many of the biggest literary awards, including the Nobel Prize in Literature.
