The Willoughby Book Talk
October 2021
With the coming of Fall comes something new at the Willoughby Wallace Library. Join us for a virtual book discussion in October. This is a pilot project that we hope will lead to regular gatherings facilitated by Rabia, a WWML staff member. From time to time we will be inviting guest facilitators to select the books and lead the discussion.
Our first book:
Klara and the Sun by Kazuo Ishiguro.
Ishiguro is the Nobel laureate author of several books, among them, notably, The Remains of the Day. In this, his most recent novel, we meet Klara, an Artificial Friend who comes to live with a family of humans. The story “offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator, and one that explores the fundamental question: what does it mean to love?”
Thursday, October 21, 2021
7.00 – 800 pm
Please call to register and we will email you the Zoom link for the meeting.
203-488-8702
The book is available to borrow from the library: https://www.wwml.org/catalog
And on Libby: https://www.wwml.org/resources#resources-digital
Here’s what the critics say:
“For four decades now, Ishiguro has written eloquently about the balancing act of remembering without succumbing irrevocably to the past. Memory and the accounting of memory, its burdens and its reconciliation, have been his subjects… Klara and the Sun complements [Ishiguro’s] brilliant vision…There’s no narrative instinct more essential, or more human.”
—The New York Times Book Review
“It aspires to enchantment, or to put it another way, re-enchantment, the restoration of magic to a disenchanted world. Ishiguro drapes realism like a thin cloth over a primordial cosmos. Every so often, the cloth slips, revealing the old gods, the terrible beasts, the warring forces of light and darkness.”
—The Atlantic
