Kazuo Ishiguro announces new novel Klara and the Sun

Project will be Ishiguro’s first novel since winning the Nobel Prize in Literature

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Sir Kazuo Ishiguro has announced a new novel, called Klara and the Sun.

The book will be published in the UK by Faber in March 2021, and tells the story of an artificial entity called Klara who yearns for a human owner.

Klara and the Sun will be Ishiguro’s first new novel since he won the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2017.

Faber’s editorial director Angus Cargill described the “stunning” project as “a novel about the human heart that speaks urgently to the here and now, but from another place".

He added: “As ever with Ishiguro’s writing, it manages to be both thrillingly surprising yet consistent with his whole body of work.”

Ishiguro rose to prominence with novels such as 1989’s The Remains of the Day and 2005’s Never Let Me Go, both of which were adapted into films.

His most recent novel was 2015’s The Buried Giant, which tells the story of an old couple searching for their son in a fantastical vision of ancient Britain.

As well as the Nobel Prize, Ishiguro has also won the Booker Prize (for The Remains of the Day). His eight existing works of fiction have been translated into more than 50 languages, and he was awarded a knighthood in 2018 for Services to Literature.