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Zoran B.

Zoranbee@bookrastinating.com

Joined 1 year, 5 months ago

Voracious reader, occasional writer, retired journalist. Canadian in Croatia, permanently. I like smart stories to challenge my imagination, or tug on my emotions. That goes for character and plot driven stories, I don’t care as long as it grips me and keeps me going through the end. Genre agnostic. I do despise lazy writing, when too little is explained and too much left to reader’s’ imagination, unfinished stories and illogical plot developments or character’s’ behaviour.

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Jennifer Egan: The Candy House (2022, Scribner)
Matthieu Aikins: Naked Don't Fear the Water (Paperback, 2022, HarperCollins Publishers)
Margarita Montimore: Oona Out of Order (2020, Flatiron)

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Kawakami Hiromi, Hiromi Kawakami, Allison Markin Powell: Strange Weather in Tokyo (2013, Portobello Books)

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Gillian Flynn: The Grownup (AudiobookFormat, 2015, Random House Audio)
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Milorad Pavlović: Unique item (2005, Dereta)
J. K. Rowling: Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows (AudiobookFormat, 2007, Listening Library)

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rated 克拉拉与太阳: 4 stars

Kazuo Ishiguro, 宋佥: 克拉拉与太阳 (Hardcover, Chinese language, 2021, 上海译文出版社)

克拉拉与太阳 by ,

克拉拉是一个专为陪伴儿童而设计的太阳能人工智能机器人（AF），具有极高的观察、推理与共情能力。她坐在商店展示橱窗里，注视着街头路人以及前来浏览橱窗的孩子们的一举一动。她始终期待着很快就会有人挑中她，不过，当这种永久改变境遇的可能性出现时，克拉拉却被提醒不要过分相信人类的诺言。

在《克拉拉与太阳》这部作品中，石黑一雄通过一位令人难忘的叙述者的视角，观察千变万化的现代社会，探索了一个根本性的问题：究竟什么是爱？