自述

• 这是从AF的视角描绘的未来世界的一本科幻书。嗯？什么是AF，啊，我当时也是一头雾水看了半天（不知道前面有没有看漏了）原来AF是artificial friend，人造伙伴，也就是机器人。故事从太阳能驱动的有着不错的智能，但是没有什么常识对于一切都很好奇、观察也很细致的人工智能，Klara，在商店里面等待买家开始。
• 后面遇到了女主Josie，后续就是围绕女主lifted之后产生的病情以及各种各样的人的面对方式展开，涉及到了青梅竹马的小伙伴、很久不见的爸爸、因为疾病死去的姐姐等等人物。
• 最终在Klara祈求太阳之力多次之后，在牺牲了自己的一部分机能和认知后，女主痊愈了，去了大学，而在她Klara的叙述里，她被留在了屋子里，没有之前那么多人关心，也从女主的房间搬了出去，到了小杂物间，最终沦落到了yard，似乎是垃圾场。最后商店经理Manager出现，和Klara畅谈了各自的经历，Klara并没有后悔，最终一幕是Manager的离去。

回顾

这本书有意思的地方

1. 大概率就是这个题材本身，我觉得从一个有意识的商品的角度描写事情还挺新奇的，Klara被Manager调到商店的不同地方，而分别有不同的观察。当我们购买商品的时候，商品不是一个静态的东西，而是一个观察了人类社会很久的活的东西，还是很神奇的。虽然或许动物也是活着的，或许他们在人类的场所也有很多想法吧，因为不曾听闻所以不在意…

2. 第二个大概就是Klara的人性化的特征，无论是商店在口头承诺之后对于小孩子会不会遵守承诺的担忧，抑或是发自”内心“而不太像程序的回答，以及为了女主的付出都是那么的纯粹和真诚。Klara在看过太阳照射一整天不动的似乎死去的乞丐以及乞丐第二天复活之后，那种太阳能生物对于太阳能的向往的天真和坚持，并单方面和太阳签订让女主康复协议的行为，真的感觉难以言说。很幼稚，是的，就像小王子一样，就像《魁拔》里面小蛮一直向前一样，理智上是天真的、甚至错误的，但 So what？坚持内心的信仰就是那么让我敬佩。

3. 第三个大概是未来人工智能足够发达之后，如果他们来得足够的快，如果我们的亲人不幸离世了，那么你会在这之前就打算让一个机器人在他最后的时间里面学习他，并最终代替他吗？我个人感觉即使有人这么做了，机器人也只是他本身，而不是已经逝去的某个人。Old-fashion，我觉得大多数人都是难以接受的。

4. 人的内心是可以复刻的吗？目前来看很难。

5. 关于剧情和叙事上的疑惑点，如果从故事本身来看，Klara在女主Josie康复之后被遗弃，最后被扔到了垃圾站，当时是让我相当难以理解的，明明从她的叙述中，她的太阳迷信成功拯救了女主但最终却是这样的结果…直到我在知乎和豆瓣看到了这样的观点——女主并没有康复，而是由于Klara贡献了部分机能之后认知错误幻想了最后的一切，而事实是“女主死了，而她机能的丧失而注定了她不能代替Josie，最终也被放弃了”。就像是叙事陷阱一样，这样的视角很有意思，虽然作者有接受过访谈访谈可以看出他可能并不是刻意如此的。

6. 从大人的视角重新回顾整个故事，会体会到其中各种各样的细节和伏笔，真的很妙。

摘抄

（不是什么好句之类的，阅读时候很随意的高亮）

Part One

• Only when I pointed out something to her would she turn her head, but then she’d lose interest and go back to looking at the sidewalk outside and the sign.
• Instead, whenever we spotted an AF out there I made a point of wondering aloud if they were happy with their child and with their home, and this always pleased and excited Rosa.
• ‘Sometimes,’ she said, ‘at special moments like that, people feel a pain alongside their happiness.
• I really want you to come, but if you said, Josie, I don’t want to, then I’d say to Mom, okay, we can’t have her, no way.
• Manager went on looking at me. ‘Perhaps you were correct,’ she said in the end. ‘I believe that girl will be happy with the B3 boy. Even so, Klara, I was very surprised.’
• ‘Perhaps you were correct,’ she said in the end. ‘I believe that girl will be happy with the B3 boy.
• For a fear had entered my mind almost at the same moment I’d felt joy on realizing who had come into the store – a fear to do with what Manager had said to me that day, about how children often made promises, then didn’t return, or if they did, ignored the AF to whom they’d made the promise and chose another. Perhaps that was why I went on waiting there quietly.

Part Two

• Time to face the music.’
• ‘Why would you play a game like that, Josie? A game in which something awful like that happens?’
• I’d never before seen anything that gave, all at once, so many signals of anger and the wish to destroy. Its face, its horns, its cold eyes watching me all brought fear into my mind, but I felt something more, something stranger and deeper.

Part Three

• You can change things as easily as a stage set.
• But he likes to pretend I’m quite helpless, likely to get up to all sorts of mischief in his absence.’
• Until recently, I didn’t think that humans could choose loneliness.
• But let me tell you, there are all kinds of other very good reasons why, in a life like mine, one might prefer loneliness.
• It’s essential to time such a trip accurately.’
• ‘Please make Josie better. Just as you did Beggar Man.’
• And it was clear the Sun was unwilling to make any promise about Josie, because for all his kindness, he wasn’t yet able to see Josie separately from the other humans, some of whom had angered him very much on account of their Pollution and inconsideration, and I suddenly felt foolish to have come to this place to make such a request.
• If I could achieve such a thing, then would you consider, in return, showing special kindness to Josie?

Part Four

• Do you believe in the human heart? I don’t mean simply the organ, obviously. I’m speaking in the poetic sense. The human heart. Do you think there is such a thing? Something that makes each of us special and individual?
• ‘I think I hate Capaldi because deep down I suspect he may be right. That what he claims is true. That science has now proved beyond doubt there’s nothing so unique about my daughter, nothing there our modern tools can’t excavate, copy, transfer.

Part Five

• It occurred to me then not only that the Sun might be angry about my failure in the city, but also that this could well be my final chance to beg for his special help – and I thought about what it might mean for Josie if I failed.
• ‘You must be so tired, and I’m very sorry to disturb you. You’ll remember, I came here once before in the summer, when you were so kind and gave me a few minutes of your time. I’m daring now to return this evening to discuss the same very important matter.’

Part Six

• There was something very special, but it wasn’t inside Josie. It was inside those who loved her. That’s why I think now Mr Capaldi was wrong and I wouldn’t have succeeded.