Kazuo Ishiguro, A Modern British Novelist

Klara observes the Sun, whom she addresses as "he" and treats as a real being, and learns about the outside world via the storefront window where she is being sold. She depends heavily on the Sun for nutrition because she is a solar-powered AF. She once observes that a beggar and his dog are lying like abandoned bags and are motionless throughout the day, in contrast to how they usually appear. Klara is shocked to discover the following morning that they are still alive and that the Sun has, in his great benevolence, preserved them with a unique form of food, even though it appears plain to her that they have died. 

Positive reviews were given to Klara and the Sun. Of the fifty-eight critic evaluations on the review aggregator website Book Marks, twenty-eight were rated as "rave," twenty-four as "positive," and six as "mixed." The reviews cumulatively had a "positive" rating. Based on twelve critic evaluations, Books in the Media, a website that compiles book reviews, gave the book a grade of 4.22 out of 5.