Nobel Prize-winning novelist Kazuo Ishiguro

LIKE MANY OF YOUR BOOKS 'CLARA AND THE SUN' BUSINESS A BEAUTIFULLY BOUND BOOK IS YOUR LATEST.

IT SORT OF CONTINUES SOME OF YOUR DYSTOPIAN INVESTIGATIONS INTO THE HUMAN CONDITION AND IN THIS CASE INTO THE.

A A. CONDITION.

TELL ME WHAT YOU WERE GOING FOR WHEN YOU CONCEIVED THIS BOOK.

IT WASN'T REALLY INTENDED TO BE A BOOK ABOUT.

A I. OR GENE EDITING.

THOSE THINGS ARE BOTH IN THE SLIGHTLY DYSTOPIAN BACKDROP.

I WOULDN'T EVEN CALL IT.

IT'S ON THE TURN.

IT COULD GO THAT WAY.

IT'S -- IT WAS REALLY AN INVESTIGATION FROM THE POINT OF VIEW OF AN A.I. INTO VERY SPECIFIC THINGS ABOUT, YOU KNOW, THE HUMAN HEART AND HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND SO -- AND IN A WAY THE MAIN CHARACTER CLARA, SHE HAS MORE IN COMMON WITH, YOU KNOW, THESE CHARACTERS YOU GET IN SMALL CHILDREN'S BOOKS, MORE LIKELY A TEDDY BEAR OR A DOLL OR AN ANIMAL.

SHE'S AN OUTSIDER, AND SHE'S LOOKING AT HUMAN LIFE FROM -- FROM A VERY SPECIFIC ANGLE.

BECAUSE SHE'S BEEN CREATED TO KEEP TEENAGERS FROM BECOMING TOO LONELY, AT THE BEGINNING ANYWAY SHE SEES HUMANITY THROUGH THE LENS OF LONELINESS.

SHE'S ALWAYS ASKING PEOPLE OUT THERE IN THE STREET ARE THEY LONELY?

ARE THEY BEHAVING LIKE THAT TO AVOID LONELINESS, SO THAT'S HOW WE START, AND IT'S KIND OF AN INVESTIGATION INTO THE -- INTO HUMAN RELATIONSHIPS, AND SOME PARTICULAR QUESTIONS, YOU KNOW.

JUST TO BE CLEAR, CLARA IS THE ROBOT, AND SHE IS HIRED, ACQUIRED, BOUGHT BY JOSIEY'S MOTHER AS YOU SAY TO LOOK AFTER JOSEY, THIS KID AND YOU TALK ABOUT GENE EDITING, AND OBVIOUSLY THE WHOLE CRISPER REVOLUTION, YOU WRITE ABOUT IT.

THERE ARE TWO DIFFERENT GROUPS OF HUMAN BEINGS IN YOUR FUTURE HERE WHO ARE GOING TO BE LIFTED OR UNLIFTED.

TELL ME WHICH IS BETTER.

WELL, I MEAN, I DON'T KNOW WHICH IS BETTER, BUT, I MEAN, IT'S GOING TO BE VERY TOUGH FOR PEOPLE WHO AREN'T LIFTED.

NOW, I'M NOT NECESSARILY SAYING THAT THIS IS WHAT'S GOING TO HAPPEN, BUT, YOU MENTIONED CRISPER RIGHT NOW.

I THINK IT'S VERY EXCITING, GENE EDITING TOOL.

I THINK IT WILL BRING US ENORMOUS BENEFITS.

I THINK A LOT OF THE DISEASES, ILLNESSES THAT WE FEAR RIGHT NOW, WE WON'T FEAR NEARLY AS MUCH BECAUSE OF GENE EDITING.

HOWEVER, I MEAN, IT DOES OPEN THE WAY FOR USING IT FOR ENHANCEMENT AND JUST -- JUST AS WE CAN USE IT TO -- TO CURE OR MAKE US IMMUNE FROM VARIOUS KINDS OF DISORDERS.