Literature, the Nobel Prize Ishiguro tells about artificial intelligence in a new novel

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February 21, 2021 "Klara and the Sun" is the first novel by the British writer of Japanese origin Kazuo Ishiguro, 66, since winning the Nobel Prize for Literature in 2017.

It

will

be published next March 2 in the UK by the publisher Faber (in Italy he is expected by Einaudi in May) and is hailed in these days by the English press as one of the great editorial events of the year.

The new story of the Nobel Prize is told from the point of view of

that, from its observation point, a shop, sees customers and passersby on the street and

so she hopes to be bought by a human.

But when the concrete possibility of being bought and taken home by a customer emerges, Klara realizes that it is not the case to invest too much in the promises of humans.

The novel was bought out of the blue by the producer 3000 Pictures to make a

.

It will be produced by David Heyman while Ishiguro is expected to be the screenwriter.

Ishiguro's latest novel is "

" released simultaneously in the world in 2015, set in a semi-mythical Fantasy version of ancient Britain, between orcs and dragons, where an

old copy, Axl and Beatrice, travel in search of the son.

In 2005 his novel "

", a science fiction parable set in a dystopian version of England, was selected for the Booker Prize.

Among his best-known books is "

", brought to the cinema by James Ivory with Anthony Hopkins and Emma Thompson, which has received eight Oscar nominations.