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Kazuo Ishiguro, author of Klara and the Sun

KLARA AND THE SUN, the first novel by Kazuo Ishiguro since he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature, tells the story of Klara, an Artificial Friend with outstanding observational qualities, who, from her place in the store, watches carefully the behavior of those who come in to browse, and of those who pass on the street outside. She remains hopeful that a customer will soon choose her. The book offers a look at our changing world through the eyes of an unforgettable narrator and explores the fundamental question: What does it mean to love?

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The Man Booker Prize for Fiction 2021

The 2021 Man Booker Prize for Fiction has been awarded to Damon Galgut for THE PROMISE. Set in South Africa during the country’s transition out of apartheid, the book explores the interconnected relationships between the members of a diminishing white family through the sequential lens of four funerals. THE PROMISE is Galgut’s ninth novel and first in seven years; his debut was published when he was just 17. Click here to read more about Galgut and his modern family saga.

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Week of February 28, 2022

Paperback releases for the week of February 28th include THE BEAUTY OF LIVING TWICE, Sharon Stone's intimate and candid memoir that chronicles her efforts to rebuild her life after a massive stroke cost her not only her health, but also her career, family, fortune and global fame; THE PARIS LIBRARY by Janet Skeslien Charles, an unforgettable story of romance, friendship, family and the power of literature to bring us together, inspired by the real-life heroic librarians at the American Library in Paris during World War II; THE GOOD SISTER, a knock-out of a novel from Sally Hepworth about the lies that bind two sisters; WHO IS MAUD DIXON? by Alexandra Andrews, a taut, twisty and character-driven psychological thriller about a famous novelist and a small-town striver locked in a struggle for fortune and fame; and Lauren Willig's BAND OF SISTERS, a sweeping novel based on a true story about a group of young women from Smith College who risk their lives in France at the height of World War I.

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