Klara is an AA, an Artificial Friend, specialized in childcare. She spends her days in a store, waiting for someone to buy her and take her to a house, a home. While she waits, she looks outside from the shop window. She observes the passers-by, their attitudes, their gestures, their way of walking, and she witnesses some episodes that she does not quite understand, such as a strange fight between two taxi drivers. Klara is a unique AA, more observant, more prone to asking questions than most of her peers. And like her companions, she needs the Sun to feed herself, to charge herself with energy...
Narrated by the curious and inquisitive Klara, an artificial being who asks very human questions, the novel explores the essence of the human being and raises disturbing questions: what defines us as humans? What is our role in the world? ?, what is love?...
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