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Klara and the Sun by ISBN: 059331817XPublication Date: 2021-03-02NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER A GOOD MORNING AMERICA Book Club Pick! A magnificent new novel from the Nobel laureate Kazuo Ishiguro--author of Never Let Me Go and the Booker Prize-winning The Remains of the Day. 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. Klara and the Sun is a thrilling book that 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? In its award citation in 2017, the Nobel committee described Ishiguro's books as "novels of great emotional force" and said he has "uncovered the abyss beneath our illusory sense of connection with the world."
Summer Knights Reading Challenge
How to Participate
The Summer Knights Reading Challenge starts June 1 and ends August 1, 2021
- Open to all UCF (all campuses) students, faculty, and staff plus Downtown Valencia students, faculty, and staff.
- It's easy! Record your reading beginning June 1st - see below for a Summer Knights Reading Log you can use.
- Once you have read 500 pages just submit this form, letting us know which books you read to reach the goal.
- For e-books and audiobooks, simply verify the number of pages in the actual book using Amazon or another source.
- Don't worry if you were in the middle of a book on June 1st, it still counts! Simply start counting from the page you were on at the start of the challenge.
- Reach the goal of reading 500 pages and win a prize pack!
- Look for ideas and ways to share your summer reading on our social media (facebook, twitter, Instagram)
Enter your books on this form.
p.s. Prize packs will be available for pickup starting June 4, 2021
500 Club
Read 500 pages and win a prize pack* Once you have read 500 pages fill out this form. You can choose to have your prize pack mailed or you can pick it up at the John C. Hitt Library, or Downtown Campus Library.
*Prize packs available while supplies last
Congratulations to our 2021 500 Club Knights!*
*As of June 22, 2021
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